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  2. List of Carnatic composers - Wikipedia

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    Prathama Vaggeyakara(First poet-composer) of Carnatic and Hindustani music forms to compose art music (in contrast to traditional bhakti poems) involving ragas; he is praised for his contributions to dance and music by his contemporary and later musicologists in their musical treatises

  3. List of songs written by Kannadasan - Wikipedia

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    The list contains songs written by Indian poet and songwriter Kannadasan. [1] He won a National Film Award for Best Lyrics which is the first lyricist receive the award. His association with Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy is notable. [2]

  4. Folk arts of Karnataka - Wikipedia

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    Yakshagana is not folk art but a popular traditional theatre of India performed in coastal and malenadu regions which is a blend of dance, music, songs, scholarly dialogue and colourful costumes. The word means "celestial music", and the dance drama is performed during the night (usually after the winter crop has been harvested).

  5. Haridasas and Carnatic music - Wikipedia

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    Vadiraja composed the Bhramaragita, the first musical opera in any south Indian language and the first koravanji dance drama. Spiritual and mundane conundra feature prominently in their songs. Apart from their numerous compositions in Kannada, Purandaradasa composed in the Bhandira language while Vadiraja composed in Tulu also. [1]

  6. Purandara Dasa - Wikipedia

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    Purandara Dasa was a wealthy merchant of gold, silver and other miscellaneous jewellery from Karnataka, who gave away all his material riches to become a Haridasa (literally meaning a servant of Vishnu or Krishna), a devotional singer who made the difficult Sanskrit tenets of Bhagavata Purana available to everyone in simple and melodious songs ...

  7. Carnatic music - Wikipedia

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    Carnatic songs (kritis) are varied in structure and style, but generally consist of three units: Pallavi. This is the equivalent of a refrain in Western music, with 1 or 2 lines. Anupallavi. This is the second verse, also as 2 lines. Charana. The final (and longest) verse that wraps up the song. The Charanam usually borrows patterns from the ...

  8. Yakshagana - Wikipedia

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    Yakshagana is a traditional theatre, developed in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Shimoga and western parts of Chikmagalur districts, in the state of Karnataka and in Kasaragod district in Kerala that combines dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up, and stage techniques with a unique style and form.

  9. Darbari Kanada - Wikipedia

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    Darbari Kanada, or simply Raga Darbari (pronounced darbāri kānada), is a raga in Carnatic music.It is a janya ragam (derived scale) of 20th Melakarta raga Natabhairavi. ...