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Main article: Pannisai. Pann, which is the classical music form of Southern India, has a long history in Tamil Nadu. Later the name was mistakenly changed as Carnatic music. Even today Pannisai is sung in temple festivals. Tamil Nadu has produced a number of famous performers, as well as a closely related classical dance form Bharatha Natyam.
The ancient Tamil music is the historical predecessor of the Carnatic music during the Sangam period spanning from 500 BCE to 200 CE. [1] Many poems of the classical Sangam literature were set to music. There are various references to this ancient musical tradition found in the ancient Sangam books such as Ettuthokai and Pattupattu.
Carnatic music, known as Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam in the South Indian 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. It is one of two main subgenres ...
He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the South Indian classical music tradition. Tyagaraja is said to have composed thousands of devotional compositions, most of them in praise of Lord Rama; some of which remain very popular even today. Of special mention are five of his compositions called the Pancharatna ...
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] It is generally described using terms like Shastriya Sangeet and Marg Sangeet. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as Hindustani and the South Indian expression known as Carnatic. [ 4 ]
c. 1700. Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu, India. Died. 1765 (aged 64–65) Oothukkaadu Venkata Kavi (c. 1700 -1765) or Oottukkaadu Venkata Subramanyar was one of the pioneering composers [1] in Indian classical Carnatic music. He lived in South India in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu. Also known by the name Oothukkaadu Venkatasubramaniya Iyer, he ...
The Sangam literature is the historic evidence of indigenous literary developments in South India in parallel to Sanskrit, and the classical status of the Tamil language. While there is no evidence for the first and second mythical Sangams, the surviving literature attests to a group of scholars centered around the ancient Madurai (Maturai ...
These are early stage composers that created the rules and foundations of classical music. Allama Prabhu (12th century) Andal (9th century) Tirugnana sambandar (7th century) Arunagirinathar (b.1480) Bhadraachala Raama daasu (1620–1688) Jayadeva, (12th Century) - Composed Gita Govinda. Prathama Vaggeyakara (First poet-composer) of Carnatic and ...