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Carnatic music or Karnataka Sangita (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.
This is popular group folk music in north Karnataka, performed during occasions and in processions. The karadi or karade is the percussion instrument used by the group. It is a palm-sized cymbal producing metallic sounds, and the shehnai produces the melody.
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.
Karnataka is a state of India with a long tradition of innovation in the fields of both Carnatic and Hindustani classical music.. Basaveshwara, King of Kalyana, leader of the Bhakti movement and Prime Minister of Bijjala, created his Vachanas, an integral part of the Indian classical music's development during this period, which also saw the rise of composers like Chandraja, Shantala, Akka ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Set the Carnatic music in its present form; composed basic exercises for practice like sarali and janta varisai, and thus known as 'Karnataka Sangeetha Pithamaha', meaning the Grandfather of Carnatic music. Kanaka Dasa: 1509–1609: Kannada: 300: Adi Keshava