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The sitar is a musical instrument developed in India. India is isolated in location, bordered by the Himalayas, world’s tallest mountains to the north, and to the south by the Indian Ocean. The music in India dates back to very ancient primitive times up to the present. In fact, Prajnanananda, a historian-musicologist of India, believes that there were very civilized people in India that were artistic and played instruments as much as 5000 years ago (3). This considerable amount of time created a great deal of advancement and development in the evolution of India’s musical concepts. Another Indian music historian, Bandyopadhya, believes that music evolved with the evolution of humanity (1). In fact, the oldest documents of music in India are a collection of Vedic religious hymns, called saman, which were meant to be performed during sacrifices around 4500 B.C. (Nijenhuis 1). Because of this isolation and the thousands of years of its evolution, Indian music developed a very di...

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