A school of music, representing a specific musical tradition. Each gharana is famous for certain individualistic style of renderings. Some famous gharanas are Gwalior, Rampur, Lucknow, Baroda, Patiala, Kirana, Maihar etc.
a stylistic tradition or school in Hindustani music
a tradition or lineage within north indian classical music. Each gharana has certain characteristics of style and emphasis. Most take their names from the locations where their founders came from.
the collective musical family & lineage of a particular teacher
School of thought or a family of musicians who are well versed in a particular style.
Style of music related to particular cities and families
A concept peculiar to Hindustani Classical music. 'Gharana' is comparable to a style or school of dance or music (vocal/ instrumental). The names of Gharanas are almost always derived from the city, district or state that the founder lived in. Various Gharanas adopted their own particular approach to presentation, technique and repertoire.
A school of music possessing certain characteristic stylistic features.
"Lit., "of the house." Family tradition; a stylistic school and/or members of that school." (Neuman 272)
Household or Family. Used to refer to a particular style where the basis would have been the rigid guru-shishya parampara or teacher-disciple learning system. The academic Deshpande suggests that a school could only be called a gharana if it were in existence for at least three generations and had markedly different stylistic features from other schools.
In Hindustani music, a gharānā is a system of social organization which groups musicians who are linked by lineage and/or apprenticeship and who adhere to a particular musical style.
