FOR ADVANCED MUSIC STUDENTS & SCHOLARS · LIVE ONLINE · NINE WEEKS
A musical system so precise, it predates Pythagoras.
and your music education almost certainly skipped it.
The 22 Shrutis are the ancient microtonal foundation of Indian Classical Music — exact, acoustically pure intervals that have never needed the compromise of tempering. Learn the full system, live online over nine weeks — or experience it first in a single Lecture-Demonstration.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
India did not produce minor traditions. It produced the foundations entire disciplines still stand on.
Charaka gave the world Ayurveda. Pāṇini gave language its grammar, through Sanskrit. Patanjali gave health and the mind Yoga. At that same level of foundational, civilization-shaping knowledge stands Bharata Muni who first scripted the science of the 22 Shrutis for music.
Charaka
Medicine
Gave the world Ayurveda the foundational science of health still practiced today.
Pāṇini
Language
Gave Sanskrit its grammar a structural system that shaped how language itself is studied.
Patanjali
Health & Mind
Gave the world Yoga uniting body, breath, and mind into a single discipline.
Bharat Muni
Music
Scripted the science of the 22 Shrutis ; the exact, mathematical foundation Indian Classical Music still stands on today.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Two traditions. One course. Taught by the people who actually live both.
Every live session moves between the ancient and the contemporary so you leave understanding not just one kind of music, but the principles underneath all of it..
Indian Classical Foundations
Swara, Raga &
Tala
Taught by Dr. Sangeeta Shankar
How a raga is built and why it can move you in ways a scale can't
Tala: the architecture of rhythm in Indian music
Swara & the 22 Shrutis - the science behind a "perfect" note
What 2,000 years of Guru-Shishya tradition actually teaches about listening
Western Music & Production
Chords, Structure & Sound
Taught by Mahesh Raghvan
How chords and harmony create tension and release
Why a song is built the way it's built - verse, hook, drop, bridge
How digital production shapes the sound of everything you stream today
Where tradition and technology actually meet and why that matters now
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Two traditions. One course. Taught by the people who actually live both.
Every live session moves between the ancient and the contemporary so you leave understanding not just one kind of music, but the principles underneath all of it..
How does the human ear and nervous system respond to pure versus tempered intervals?
What is the relationship between mathematical elegance and musical beauty?
What can non-Western tuning systems teach us about tonality, cognition, and the universals of music?
How do ancient Indian musical sciences intersect with modern acoustics and physics?
EXPERIENCE IT FIRST
The Lecture-Demonstration — a single live session that shows you what the course teaches in full.
Pitched at the level of serious musical scholarship — drawing on the landmark research of Dr. Vidyadhar Oke, India's foremost scholar on the 22 Shrutis, and the 'Shrutis Simplified' series, which has reached tens of thousands of musicians worldwide. Open to advanced students and scholars at participating institutions, and the natural first step before enrolling in the full course.
Live acoustic demonstrations of pure microtonal intervals — heard and felt in the room
A direct comparison between the 22 Shruti system and the 12-tone equal-tempered scale
The living continuity of this science from Bharata Muni's Natyashastra to today's concert stage
Open Q&A with your students and faculty
From hearing the difference, to mastering the system.
Every live session moves between the ancient and the contemporary so you leave understanding not just one kind of music, but the principles underneath all of it..
9 Weeks
Two months, start to finish
Weekly
One live online session a week
Eligibility
Both the Lecture-Demonstration and the full course are built for an advanced level of musical maturity not a general introduction.
They are open to:
1. Final-year Bachelor's students and above, in any music programme.
2. Master's and PhD students and scholars in music.
3. Musicians trained in the Gurukula system for seven years or more
Dr. Sangeeta Shankar
Violinist · Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee · Founder, Sharangadev School
Daughter of Padma Vibhushan Dr. N. Rajam and a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award from the President of India, Dr. Shankar offers a comprehensive, world-class curriculum in Indian Classical Music including dedicated courses on the 22 Shruti Tuning System to students across the globe through the Sharangadev School of Music and Culture. Her own series, '22 Shrutis Simplified,' has reached tens of thousands of musicians worldwide.
THE RESEARCH BEHIND THE SYSTEM
Dr. Vidyadhar Oke
India's Foremost Scholar on the 22 Shrutis
Dr. Vidyadhar Oke is the researcher whose work this course and lecture-demonstration are built on the inventor of the world's only patented 22-Shruti Harmonium, 22-Shruti Metallophone, and Calibrated 22-Shruti Veena. His detailed mathematical formula for generating the 22 Shrutis has been recognised by some of India's most celebrated classical musicians, and forms the scientific foundation that Dr. Sangeeta Shankar draws on throughout this course.