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Main Indian Instruments Tala The rhythmic system of classical Indian music, which governs compositions and much of the improvised material of a performance. The word itself does not simply mean rhythm, but signifies instead a beating or clapping of time. Put in its simplest way, a Tala is a repeating cycle of a number of beats, grouped in a particular way. The concept applies to both the Hindustani (northern) and Carnatic (southern) traditions of Indian music, although there are important differences in the names, organizations, and usages of the talas, and in Carnatic music a greater variety is employed. In Hindustani music, by far the commonest Tala is the one known as Tintal, so it can also be described as the commonest of all Indian talas, and is therefore ideal to exemplify the principles of Tala. Tintal has an avarta or avritti (cycle) of 16 matras (units, beats), grouped into 4...

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