Sthayi

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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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