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Hindustani music

LC control no.sh 85088852
Topical headingHindustani music
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Variant(s)Classical music, North Indian
Hindustani classical music
Music, Hindustani
North Indian classical music
See alsoMusic--South Asia
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Found inNew Grove dict. of mus.: v. 9, p. 73 (In South Asia there are two recognized dialects of classical music. Hindustani (or north Indian) ... for the region where Indo-Aryan languages are spoken (including Pakistan and Bangladesh), that is, the Indo-Gangeti plain with the north-western quadrant of the peninsula)
New Harvard dict. of mus.: South Asia (... Hindustani and Carnatic systems. The former is prevalent in northern, Indo-Aryan-speaking areas of the subcontinent, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and less significantly, Afghanistan and Nepal and among the Sinhalese inhabitants of Sri Lanka.)
New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Jan. 20, 2010: (The classical music of north India.)