Adi tala (8 beats) demonstrated by T.R. Sundaresan https://youtu.be/1nuVVk7nn8g Adi tala (8 beats) solo by T.R. Sundaresan Misra chapu tala (7 beats) performed as konnakkol by T.R. Sundaresan
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Melakarta raga application
12 positions are available in the South Indian 72 mela system. To learn more, read the following explanations. Source © Ludwig Pesch | Creative Commons License >> A scale – mēla in Carnatic or thāt in Hindustani music – isn’t a raga yet: it is no more than an imaginary arrangement of notes for the …
“The fundamental principle is joy” – Music education pioneer VV Sadagopan
“Children should grow with joy, courage and freedom and a discipline born out of these attributes. The fundamental principle is joy, suggestion must be the method, the emphasis should be on the imaginative and creative experience of music and teaching should follow a “flow-form-flow” spiral. – VV Sadagopan | PDF-Repository >> World Children’s Day (20 September) …
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How prehistoric societies were transformed by the sound of music
Amidst lively debates within and beyond India these perspectives on our shared legacy make interesting reading: Vainika Savithri Rajan who believed that Tyagaraja, like other great men, was always meditating, but his medium of expression was nādam, “sound”. In the introduction to his unfinished yet voluminous magnum opus Karunamirtha Sagaram, titled “The Dignity and Origin …
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Bhava enables the transmission of experience of thoughts and emotions – Narayana Vishwanath
CHENNAI: We are aware that the ultimate aim of every composer and musician is to achieve the coalescence, the essential factors of classical music namely bhava, raga and tala. We know bhava literally means, expression, the expression of existence. In a composition, bhava encompasses the aspects rasa, raga ((The most concise definition of a raga …