Multiple choice general knowledge

Carnatic music tends to be more structured than Hindustani music because of Logical classification of ragas into:

  1. Compound ragas

  2. Melakarthas

  3. Varnam

  4. Pallavi
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Explanation

Melakartha ragas are the 72 fundamental parent ragas in Carnatic music, forming a complete mathematical system. Every other raga derives from these Melakartha scales, providing the logical classification that makes Carnatic music more structured than Hindustani music's freer approach.

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