gharana · Dhrupad vocal
Darbhanga gharana (dhrupad)
A dhrupad line with a strong Gauharbani and Khandarbani inheritance, known for elaborate alap and forceful composition singing.
Darbhanga, Bihar · 3 musicians documented
Gharanas & musical lineages
Hindustani music is taught person to person. Browse the traditions by voice, instrument or place, and open one to read who is documented within it.
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The names of these traditions — gharana, bani, teaching line, regional style — describe different things, and each entry says which it is. Where a teaching link is shown, a sentence in a named source supports it. Where it is not, we say so, and the claim stays unpublished.
This is growing research rather than a complete map. Not every instrument organises itself into gharanas, many musicians here do not yet have a page of their own, and dates, founders and teaching links are left out wherever a source has not yet settled them. Additions are read by an editor before they appear. Carnatic traditions are a later phase.
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Dhrupad, been and pakhawaj traditions
The oldest surviving layer: dhrupad singing, the rudra veena that shadows it, and the pakhawaj that keeps its time. These pass down as banis and family lines rather than as city-named houses.