Carnatic music

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Carnatic music · The classical music of South India took shape in the sixteenth century in Vijayanagara, present-day Hampi, where Purandara Dasa wrote the exercises with which students still begin today. As in the north, everything revolves around raga, a scale with fixed turns, and tala, a rhythmic cycle, but here the composed song, the kriti, is central. Around 1800 Tyagaraja, Dikshitar and Syama Sastri wrote the classics of the repertoire. Violin and mridangam, a double-headed drum, accompany the voice.

Listening

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  Pillangoviya Cheluva Krishnana (raga Kapi) · M.S. Subbulakshmi
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  Samajavaragamana (raga Hindolam, Tyagaraja) · U. Srinivas, 1993
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  Jagadananda Karaka (Tyagaraja) · Lalgudi Jayaraman, 1993

In School of Rock

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See also

• U. Srinivas
• Lalgudi Jayaraman
• Vedic chant