Abstract

Change is human nature. Music is reflection of the society. It is interesting to study journey of music right from invention of seven notes to music today. This paper takes an account of changes occurred in Indian Classical Music (vocal) and states the gains as well as losses to the music field during this journey. It tries to see these changes from historical, sociological and technological perspective. Historical and sociological perspective tells us about the way music was conceptualized, systematized and propagated. By technological perspective, it explains many other aspects like impacts of globalization, digitization, and technology. These effects are manifold and should be studied deeply. This paper attempts to study impacts of historical, sociological and technological factors on Indian classical music. Indian classical music has not only survived despite of tremendous factors influencing it, but it has taken new form, a new look every time.