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[[File:Sitar Sarod Jugalbandi - lakshay & Aayush Mohan Gupta.jpg|thumb|A [[Sitar]] - [[Sarod]] Jugalbandi]]<br />
A '''jugalbandhi''' or '''jugalbandi''' is a performance in [[Indian classical music]], especially in [[Hindustani classical music]] but also in [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]], that features a duet of two solo musicians.<ref name="Béhague1984">{{cite book|author=Gérard Béhague|title=Performance practice: ethnomusicological perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90sUAQAAIAAJ|access-date=14 July 2013|page=27|year=1984|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-24160-4}}</ref><ref name="Varadarajan2010">{{cite book|author=Latha Varadarajan|title=The Domestic Abroad:Diasporas in International Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ujm4qL0K5VYC&pg=PA138|access-date=14 July 2013|date=10 September 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-988987-7|pages=138–}}</ref> The word jugalbandi means, literally, "entwined twins." The duet can be either vocal or instrumental.<br />
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Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist [[Ravi Shankar]] and sarod player [[Ali Akbar Khan]], who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] and [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani]]). What defines ''jugalbandi'' is that the two soloists be on an equal footing. A performance can only truly be deemed a jugalbandi when neither musician is always the soloist or solely an accompanist. In jugalbandi, both musicians act as lead players, and a playful competition exists between the two performers.<br />
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== Hindustani-Carnatic Jugalbandi ==<br />
Jugalbandi of [[Hindustani Music|Hindustani]] and [[Carnatic Music|Carnatic styles]] has evolved into a relatively common pattern that has the Hindustani artist accompanied by a [[tabla]] artist, and the Carnatic artist accompanied by a [[mridangam]] artist, and possibly also accompanied by [[tanpura]]. The main artists from each tradition present a composition in their own style and then together collaborate and present a common piece. The common piece is usually in a raga that is common to both traditions, such as ''[[Yaman (raga)|Yaman]]-[[Kalyani (raga)|Kalyani]]'', ''[[Bhairavi]]-[[Sindhubhairavi (raga)|Sindhubhairavi ]]'', ''[[Keeravani]]''.<br />
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== Jasrangi ==<br />
Jasrangi is a novel form of Jugalbandi. [[Jasraj|Pandit Jasraj]] is credited as the inventor of this new form of Jugalbandi. In Jasrangi Jugalbandi a male and a female vocalist sing two different [[Raga|ragas]] at the same time in two different scales, based on the Moorchhana principle of [[Indian classical music]]. The two singers give prominence to the Shadja-Madhyam and Shadja-Pancham Bhav, with the ‘ma’ note of the female voice becoming the ‘sa’ of the male voice, and the male ‘pa’ becoming the female ‘sa’. Since both the singers sing in their own pitch the tonal quality in the music is not lost. <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/november-fest/sanjeev-abhyankar-ashwini-bhide-deshpande-at-friday-review-november-fest-2014/article6522606.ece|title = Jasrangi: Sanjeev Abhyankar & Ashwini Bhide Deshpande|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 25 October 2014}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Indian classical music]]<br />
[[Category:Instrumental duets]]<br />
[[Category:Hindustani music performance]]<br />
[[Category:Hindustani music terminology]]<br />
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