Sthayi or
Asthaayi is an initial phrase or line of a fixed,
melodic composition in
Hindustani music.
It is a way of having 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.
Sthayi means an octave.
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