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On the characteristics of South Asian folk music with the knowledge of ethnomusicology
South Asia refers to southern Asia, including Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. The characteristics of South Asian music are as follows:

1. The mainstream position of Indian music in South Asia

The melodic type called Lager and the rhythmic type called Tara, which are represented by Indian music, play the unique improvisation of players within a certain melodic framework, sustain sound, face-to-face oral transmission and the use of musical instruments, etc., are expressed in various forms and different degrees in the music of South Asian countries.

second, the diversity of music in South Asian countries

third, the close relationship between musical art and religion and folk customs

fourth, drum instruments and plucked string instruments are fully used

In South Asian music, membrane-sounding drum instruments and chord-sounding plucked instruments are fully used. Wiener, sitar and Temple are the main representative instruments.