Sthayi or Asthaayi is an initial phrase or line of a fixed, melodic composition in Hindustani music.[1] It's a way of systematizing the parts of a composition. The Sthayi part of a Dhrupad is the first of four stanzas and uses the middle octave's first tetrachord and the lower octave notes.[2]
Sthayi means an octave. Shadjam to NIshadham is called sthayi or an octave. It is called a position. Basically there are 3 stayis but 5 stayis are correct too.[clarification needed] Anumandra sthayi, mandra sthayi, madhya sthayi, tara sthayi and athithara sthayi.
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- ↑ Te Nijenhuis, Emmie (1974). Indian Music: History and Structure. BRILL Academic. pp. 80–81. ISBN 90-04-03978-3.
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