In this sense, instruments such as the Indian sitar are classified as lutes.
Then he dedicated the entire show to Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar maestro who died on Tuesday.
Jones's mother, Sue, and her father, the Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, are sacrosanct subjects for her.
Andre Afram Asmar has dub-reggae roots, but his collages incorporate Arabic singing, Indian sitar, Latin percussion, echo-saturated rap and baby talk, for starters.
Mr. Glass found his style of composing as a student in Europe, when asked to transcribe a performance by the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar in a film.
And the musicians, who aren't exactly primitives, are also coming up with border-crossing collaborations like Ghazal, Mr. Kayhor's group with the Indian sitar player Shujaat Khan.
Young musicians may step upstairs to the musical instruments galleries, home to dreamy, fancifully decorated antique violins, pianos, guitars, lutes, trumpets and saxophones, as well as traditional African drums and Indian sitars.
Out of it came world music that entered my songwriting and that was classical, baroque, jazz, blues -- folk, of course -- ancient Italian music, Eskimo, Pagan, all this music, Indian sitars..
Here, brilliant young trio Barrule ignited the folk tunes of the Isle of Man, while British-Indian sitar player Roopa Panesar and her band were also outstanding, DaWangGang intriguingly fused traditional Chinese instruments with slide-guitar quotes from In My Time of Dying, and there was a sporadically brilliant set from Brazil's Lucas Santa, who has a unique touch for ringing, chiming guitar.
Supposedly when I was in my mom's belly, they would put headphones on the womb and blast Indian classical sitar in there!
This setting of a Sanskrit poem honouring Devi, consort of Siva and the female authority behind all creation, lasts nearly two hours and requires surround-sound forces, traditional Indian instruments including sitar and tanpura, plus organ, piano and prominent solo cello (Natalie Clein).
