Indian Classical Music.ppt

INDIAN MUSIC

• By Twain fernandes • 20170005795

ORIGIN • Divine origin • First sound- “OM” – Manifestation of Brahma • In beginning only devotional and restricted to religious and ritualistic purposes

• Indian classical music is based on the ragas ("colors") • Tumburu was the first singer; • Saraswati was the goddess of music and learning; and • Bharata was the first to draw up rules for theatre, of which music was a major and integral part.

• In beginning music was devotional in content and was restricted to religious and ritualistic purposes and used only in temples. • Indian music developed from the ritualistic music in association with folk music and other musical forms of India and gradually derived its own musical characteristics.

MUSIC IN AKBAR”S COURT • During the Mughal period, and especially under Akbar's reign, temple music took a back seat and Darbar Sangeet came into being. • There were numerous musicians in the court, Hindus, Iranis , Kashmiris and Turanis, both men and women. The musicians were divided into seven orders. There was one for each day of the week.

Tansen • Tansen, the legendary musician of Akbar's court. • Among the many works are a treatise named the 'Ragamala', many 'Dohas' describing the 'lakshanas' or the attributes of ragas, 'Sangeet Saar', and 'Shri Ganesh Stotra'. • Tansen reduced the 4000 ragas into a system of 400. He is said to have created many ragas like 'Miyan Malhar' and 'Miyan ki todi'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

BANSURI

SHEHNAI

HARMONIUM

DRUMS & PERCUSSION DHOLAK

GHATAM (south India, Punjab)

Stringed Instruments

SITAR

Tabla Queen of drums the Bayan (big bass drum) and the Dayan

SANTOOR The Indian Santoor which is played with sticks has developed out of the folk music in Kashmir. It took a long time for it to find acceptance also in classical Indian music... The Santoor virtuoso Shivkumar Sharma.

SARASWATI-VINA The popularity of the Sitar in the north of India corresponds more or less to the Saraswati-Vina in the southern Indian tradition. It is regarded as belonging to the classical solo instruments and is similarly structured as the Sitar. The whole instrument is manufactured from one piece of wood.

MUSICIANS All musicians are poor; this is the law, but they have a rich tradition to fall back on.

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AR Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman, who is better known as AR Rahman, is a worldclass musician of India. Born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on 6 January 1967 at Chennai in Tamil Nadu, AR Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India.

MS Subbulakshmi MS Subbulakshmi was a legendary Carnatic musician. She was popularly known as Nightingale of India. Her rendering of bhajans (devotional songs) was divine and used to enthrall and transfix listeners, and transport them into a different world

Pandit Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar is a legendary sitar player and one of India's most esteemed classical musicians. Pandit Ravi Shankar has made a major contribution in popularizing Indian classical music in the West

Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain is a classical tabla virtuoso and the most famous tabla player in India today. His contribution in the field of percussion and in the music world at large is highly appreciated

• Pandit Debu Chaudhuri Pandit Debu Chaudhuri also known as Debu, is the leading Sitar exponent and a prominent personality in the field of Indian classical music in India. The Indian government presented him with the coveted Padma Bhushan award.

POP CHANGES WEEK TO WEEK, MONTH TO MONTH. BUT GREAT MUSIC IS LIKE LITERATURE. -RAVI SHANKAR