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Various styles of traditional drums are used in folk music, dance and theater of Karnataka Dollu Kunitha is also danced by women. This is a group dance named after the dollu used in its performance, and performed by the men of the Kuruba Gowda community. The group consists of 16 dancers, each wearing a drum and playing different rhythms while ...
Though historians claim Purandara Dasa composed 75,000 - 475,000 songs in Sanskrit and Kannada, [1] only a few hundred of them are known today. [2] [3] He was a source of inspiration to the later composers like Tyagaraja. [4] Owing to his contribution to the Carnatic Music he is referred to as the Father of Carnatic Music (Karnataka Sangeeta ...
Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).
Carnatic music (known as Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam in the Dravidian languages) is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and portions of east and south Telangana and southern Odisha.
Purandaradasa is credited with laying the foundations of the systematic study of Karnataka Music. He composed the elementary solfeggio exercises called sarale (svarali), janti (varase), tala-alankaras as well as the group of songs called pillari gitas. These exercises form the first lessons in learning Carnatic music even today.
Tamang Selo is a musical genre of the Tamang people and widely popular amongst the Nepali speaking community in India and around the world. It is usually accompanied by Tamang instruments, the Damphu, Madal and Tungna. although modern instruments have found their way into the compositions these days [1] A Selo could be very catchy, attractive and lively or slow and melodious and is usually ...
This is a list of Carnatic instrumentalists: musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India. Musicians are listed by the instrument they have played. Musicians are listed by the instrument they have played.
Subbaraya Sastri, born 1803 - rare honour to learn from the Trinity of Carnatic Music. Palghat Parameswara Bhagavathar, born 1815; Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan, born 1844; Patnam Subramania Iyer, born 1845; Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar, born 1860; Mysore Vasudevachar, born 1865; Tiger Varadachariar, born 1876; Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, born 1883