This course covers all the important facets of Carnatic music, the classical music of South India: its traditions as well as its present role in the fields of music and education all over the world.
How to learn and understand
Through e-learning and practical exercises, you get actively involved in Carnatic music and other aspects of South India’s rich and varied culture.
To begin with, embark on a virtual journey with the help of an interactive musical map (as much else here, freely accessible for all learners).
An experience for discerning minds
This course is open for all and therefore welcomes those who may have lacked opportunities to study Carnatic music before, or did not avail of them back home in India:
- as a meaningful experience for people from various cultural backgrounds and age groups
- to learn about Carnatic music even without having had an opportunity to visit India
- for putting the concept of lifelong learning into practice by setting a few minutes aside on a daily basis (“Flow” exercises)
It hardly surprises that educators, scientists just as policy-makers believe that active involvement in music, combined with lifelong learning, is conducive to social inclusion while fostering personal growth and emancipation:
“Musicians and listeners must have been aware long before the abstract conception of scales came into use that different tone collections tend to elicit different emotions.” – Dale Purves in Music as Biology: The Tones We like and Why (Harvard University Press)
Customized in response to specific needs
The Music of South India is being updated regularly, both for informal (free) participation and site-specific course developed in collaboration with educational institutions and cultural organisations.
“Very often I think and feel that I am like a flute – the flute that cannot talk but when the breath is upon it, can sing.” – Rabindranath Tagore (whose pioneering institution Santiniketan inspired Kalakshetra)