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 | | Art music is bound by a 'System', 'Sruti' and 'laya', i.e., remaining aligned to a basic pitch and maintaining a regular beat, are the requirements, not just of art music, but of any music in India. |
 | | Music by itself means only the melodic edifice with or without the scaffolding of tala, created by the voice or tonal instrument, and does not include the drum part, In a South Indian concert performance the drumming supplies another dimension, and together with the melodic event, creates a larger, complex art form. |
 | | In south Indian music tala-s are of two kinds-those which belong to the group of 35 tala-s and those which belong to a random collection of tala-s such as misra-capu and khanda-cap. |
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