Indian Classical Music is a timeless tradition with immense complexities. Over the centuries, methods of both learning and performing differed from time to time and place to place. This has given birth to a variety of schools with different styles of performance and practice. Today, therefore, there is no one standard method available to learn Indian Classical Music in an uniform manner. This book will help readers interested in Indian Classical Music to understand and appreciate classical music performances. This in turn will create an enthusiastic, well-informed, music literate audience truly able to appreciate the beauty and hard work necessary for learning and performing this wonderful genre of music.