The custams and rituls associated with a place make up the culcture of Bangalore city.Art, music and dance
have enabled a hitech city like Bangalore to carve out its own niche in
the culctural world.The city also boats rich tradition of theatre and
literature.Music transcends all barries of time, emotion, culcture and language.In Bangalore,care has been taken to promote both Indian classical as well as Western Music.
Carnatic music,belived to have its origine in the Vedas, halis from this part of the country.According to some scholas, Carnatic music drew inspiration from ancient Tamil music.During the Vijayanagar rule,the Kannada Haridasa movement of Vyasaraja, Purandra Dasa and Kanaka Dasa fanned the growth of carnatic music.Purandra Dasa, called the father of Carnatic music, is belived to have imparted a structure to the then-rudimentary Carnatic music.He has about 4,75,000 compositions to his credit.
The vital elements of Carnatic music are sruti(pitch),raga(melody),swara(sound),tala(beat),kriti(song) and varnam(notes).The five important styles of singing are Raga Alapana, Niraval, Kalpanaswaram, Thanam and Ragam Thanam Pallavi.
carnatic music compared to Hindustani music, is a more rigorous, formal and dtructured form of music.Its basic form is monophonic with 72 basic scales on the octave and a rich melody.
Carnic raga elaborations have a high tempo and are short in lenth.Varnam, the opening piece, is a warm-up for the musicians.It is followed by devotion and a request for blessings.Next is a series of interchanges between ragas(unmetred melody) and thaalams(the ornamentation).This is merged with hymns called kritis and followed by the pallavi or theme of the raga.
Saint tyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar and shyama Shastri are the three chief gurus of carnatic music and hail from nearby Andhra Pradesh.
It is an encouraging trend that bangalore has a loyal following of carnatic music even among the yonger generation.Also popular with Bangaloreans are numbers from hit Hindi and Kannada fkicks.International music like pop and Hip-hop also have a huge audience in this part of the country.
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