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Song structure
In the songs of the 50s to 80s a very similar structure is heard. It may begin with an intro line, e.g. in the aayegaa aane walaa, one hears Khaamosh hai zamaana ... Then there is intro music. Then the sthaaee or the refrain. More intro music, the first antaraa or stanza, followed by more interludes and stanzas.
But if one listens to songs from the 30s or early 40s, in most songs, there is hardly any interlude music. The singers start singing, keep singing and singing till the end. The music is in the background playing almost a secondary part.
The sthaaee-antaraa form became standard some time during the late 40s. Many people believe that it was Anil Biswas who did that. But it is a matter of ongoing research.
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Whenever I read about Indian Classical music or its history, from the earliest books till date, they always mention that the Indian music has melody whereas the western music has harmony. This is very surprising to me because even some of the African music has harmony and we missed it. I have been trying to find examples of it in Indian classical music, but I don't know enough. Here is the earliest example from Hindi film music (based on what they say in books, all I hear is two different tunes overlapping in many places.)
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Listen to Hum Diwane (1965)
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India Abroad wrote an article claiming that Lata sang 30,000 songs. After it was published, I received many phone calls and people bought HFGK volumes. The best side-effect was that I discovered my BFF Dr Manohar Lal Kapur
The original that I mailed
This is how they published
They mis-spelt his name and removed his address info. And at least admitted that it was controversial.
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Mr Jayaraman lifted many songs from YouTube. I am ignoring them.
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