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Published: 22 September 2017

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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.)

 duniya rang rangili baba

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Listen to Hum Diwane (1965) 

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Published: 21 September 2017

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Wazir Mohammed Khan talks about how he happened to be the first singer. I wish somebody had recorded the song in his voice while he was still alive.

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 Listen to Veer Bhimsen (1964)

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Published: 20 September 2017

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I am sure everybody has heard many songs from the early recording period by Gauhar Jan and others. They used to say at the end, My name is Gauhar Jan. In the following song the actors actually announce that this is a song from a film and the names of characters. This is the first time I heard this kind of thing

Dialog and song announcement

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 Listen to Mera Qasoor Kya Hai (!964)