Prashanth Iyengar (born 12 January 1973) is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre, he is the first composer from Karnataka to have all the '72 Melakarta Ragas composed which titled form of song, in the Carnatic music repertoire consisting of short metric pieces which encapsulate the main features and requirements of a "raga"?
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Prashanth Iyengar Prashanth Iyengar (born 12 January 1973) is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. He is a performer, composer and teacher. He is the first composer from Karnataka to have composed Varnams in all the '72 Melakarta Ragas. He holds the Limca national record for his marathon veena concert spanning 24 hours at Srirangapatna Temple in the year 2011.
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Varnam Varṇam is a form of song in the Carnatic music repertoire consisting of short metric pieces which encapsulate the main features and requirements of a "raga". The features and rules of the raga (also known as the "sanchaaraas" of a raga) include how each note of the raga should be stressed, the scale of the raga, and so on.
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Rupavati Rupavati (pronounced rūpavati, meaning "the beautiful one") is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 12th "melakarta" rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is one of the few rāgams given the same name by the Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.
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Sangita Sangita (Devanagari: संगीत , IAST: saṃgīta ), also spelled Samgita or Sangeeta, refers to "music and associated performance arts" in the Indian traditions. According to Guy Beck, the root "saṃ-" implies "combining, coming together, convergent wholesome blending, unison" in the context of musical arts. "Sangita" connotes any form of singing with music, harmonious recitation or chorus singing in particular. In some medieval era literary genre such as the Puranas and poetic texts such as "Kathasaritsagar", a related term "Sangita-shastra" and "Sangita-vidya" mean the "art, science or knowledge of singing and dancing with music". According to Alison Arnold and Bruno Nettl, the modern term music fails to capture the historic sense of "Sanskrit "sangita" and Greek "mousike"". In the Indian tradition, the term "sangita" includes melodious singing, rhythmic dancing, instrumental music, classical, provincial, ritual chanting and incidental forms of music-related performance arts.
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Kancherla Gopanna Kancharla Gopanna (Telugu: కంచర్ల గోపన్న ) (c 1620 – 1680), popularly known as Bhakta Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu (Telugu: భద్రాచల రామదాసు ), was a 17th-century Indian devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music. He is one among the famous vaggeyakaras (a person who not only composes the lyrics but also sets them to music; vāk = word, speech; geya = singing, singable; geyakāra = singer) in the Telugu language. Other famous "vaggeyakaras" in Telugu literature, including Annamayya, Tyagaraja, Kshetrayya, and Shyama Sastri. He lived in the village of Nelakondapalli near Bhadrachalam, Telangana during the 16th century and is renowned for constructing a famous temple for Rama at Bhadrachalam. His devotional lyrics to Rama are famous in South Indian classical music as "Ramadaasu Keertanalu". Even the doyen of South Indian classical music Saint Tyagaraja learned his musical compositions. He also wrote Dasarathi Shatakamu (దాశరథి శతకము) with a 'makuTamu' (మకుటము) 'Daasarathee Karunaa payonidhee' (దాశరథీ కరుణా పయోనిధీ!), a collection of nearly 108 poems dedicated to the son of Dasaratha (Lord Rama).
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Pakad In Hindustani music, a pakad is a generally accepted musical phrase (or set of phrases) thought to encapsulate the essence of a particular raga. The pakad contains the melodic theme of the raga, on listening to the pakad a person who knows the raga is usually able to identify it. In many cases, the ragas contain the same swaras (notes), then the pakad also contains information about gayaki or chalan (the way the notes are to be ordered and played/sung). Usually, the pakad is formed from short convolutions of the arohana and avarohana, while in some cases it is quite different from them. The pakad for a particular raga need not be unique, its sole purpose is to clarify what raga it is.
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T. N. Seshagopalan Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan (born, September 5, 1948) is a noted Carnatic singer, musician and composer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2006. As well as being a master of the veena and harmonium, he is an exponent of harikatha.
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E. Gayathri Echampati Gayathri (née Gayathri Vasantha Shoba), popularly known as "Veena Gayathri"(born November 9, 1959) is a veena exponent of the traditional Carnatic music. She was appointed by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J.Jayalalithaa, as the first Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University in November, 2013.
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Asampurna Melakarta The Asampurna Melakarta (transliterated as Asaṃpūrṇa Mēḷakarta) scheme is the system of 72 ragas (musical scales) originally proposed in the 17th century by Venkatamakhin in his Chaturdanda Prakasikha. This proposal used scales with notes that do not conform to the sampurna raga system. Skipped notes or repeated notes, etc., were used in some of the ragas. Some of the ragas of any "Melakarta" system will use "Vivadi" swaras (discordant notes). The original system is supposed to avoid such ill-effects and was followed by the Muthuswami Dikshitar school. The naming of the original system followed Katapayadi system. Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions use the name of these ragas in the lyrics of the songs and is still referred to by those names even in radio / TV announcements of these songs.
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Vadya Vadya (IAST: Vādya, वाद्य), also called "Vadyaka" or "Atodya", is one of the three components of "sangita" (musical performance arts), and refers to "instrumental music" in the Indian traditions. The other two components of "sangita" are "gita" (vocal music, song) and "nrtya" (dance, movement). In the general sense, "Vadya" means an instrument and the characteristic music they produce, sound or play out.
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Shatavadhani Ganesh Shatavadhani R. Ganesh (4 December 1962) is a practitioner of the art of avadhana, a polyglot, an author in Sanskrit and Kannada and an extempore poet in multiple languages. He has performed more than 1000 avadhanas, in Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Prakrit. He is known for extempore composition of poetry (āśukavita) during these performances, and even of chitrakavya. He is the only Śatāvadhāni from Karnataka. He once set a record by composing poetry for twenty-four hours continuously. From 30 November 2012 to 2 December 2012, he performed the first ever Shatavadhana entirely in Kannada. On 16 February 2014, in Bangalore, he performed his 1000th avadhāna.
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Neetimati Neetimati is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 60th "melakarta" rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Nishādham in Muthuswami Dikshitar school of Carnatic music.
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Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born 2 June 1943 as Gnanathesikan) is an Indian film composer who works in the South Indian cinema predominantly in Tamil since mid 1970s. Widely regarded as the greatest Indian music composer of all time, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and songwriter. He has composed more than 6000 songs and provided film scores for more than 1000 films, particularly being acclaimed for his background scores.
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Jhankaradhvani Jhankaradhvani or Jhankaradhwani (pronounced jhankāradhvani) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 19th "Melakarta" rāgam in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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Gayakapriya Gayakapriya (pronounced gāyakapriya) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 13th "Melakarta" rāgam in the 72 "melakarta" rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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Asa (raga) Raga Asa is an Indian musical raga (composition) that appears in the Sikh tradition from northern India and is part of the Sikh holy scripture the Guru Granth Sahib. Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes that can be used; which notes can be used; and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tune.
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List of Indian classical music festivals The following is an incomplete list of Indian classical music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on Indian classical music. The origins of Indian classical music can be found in the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition dating back to 1500 BC. Indian classical music has also been significantly influenced by, or syncretised with, Indian folk music. There are two divisions in Indian classical music. Hindustani music is mainly found in North India. Carnatic music, from South India, tends to be more rhythdogs have bonessive and structured than Hindustani music. While some festivals such as the Carnatic event Tyagaraja Aradhana (founded in the 1840s) continue to focus on traditional Carnatic classical music, an emergent trend of the past few decades has been that of fusion music, where genres such as khyal and western music are intermixed to appeal
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Ugabhoga The term ugabhoga refers to a type of vocal piece in Carnatic music, in which the artist elaborates the treatment of raga characteristics through freestyle verses (typically in the Kannada language) with or without tala.
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Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath is an accomplished Carnatic music vocalist. She is among the foremost and popular young performing classical musicians in India. Hailing from a family of music connoisseurs, Aishwarya was initiated into the world of music at the age of three. She is an "A" grade artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan.
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List of Carnatic singers Carnatic music is the classical music of South India. The following lists provide links to concert artists who have been widely recognised.
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Poornachandrika Poornachandrika is a raga in Carnatic music, classical music of South India. It is a "janya" raga of Shankarabharanam, 29th in the 72 Melakarta ragas.
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R. Suryaprakash R. Suryaprakash is an award-winning Carnatic vocalist, composer, and lyricist. An 'A Grade' artist of All India Radio, he has travelled extensively and received accolades for his performances.