Music can bring harmony peace in stress prone life today. Even plants grow fast in a musical environment. Music is considered a fifth Veda. Vedas are commandments of the creator for a happy healthy and peaceful world. Indian music has a long and unbroken tradition and is an accumulated heritage of centuries, it is believed that sage Narada introduced the art of music to the world.
The Nadabrahma is the sound that pervades the whole universe.
Organised Indian music owes its origin to Sama Veda. The first reference to music was made by Panini 500BC. the first reference to musical theory is found in Rikpratisakhya 400BC.
Bharata's Natya shastra establishes clearly elaborating the octaves divided into 22 keys. Dathilam also endorses the existences of 22 sruti per octave and further claims that these twenty two are the only ones a human body can make.
In the beginning music was devotional in content and was purely used for ritualistic purposes restricted to temples.
Samagana: chanting of the verse set to musical patterns.
Jatigan evolved to narrate the epics. Prabandha Sangeet written in Sanskrit.
The Gupta period is considered a golden era in the development of Indian Music. Natya Shastra and Brihaddeshi are written during this period.
Indian classical music developed from the ritualistic music in association with folk music and other musical expressions developing into a characteristic art. two schools of Music resulted the Hindustani and Carnatic. The Carnatic is Kriti based and sahitya oriented while the Hindustani emphisises of musical structure and possibilities of improvisation in it. (Shudha swara saptaka) the carnatic music retained the traditional octave.
The Nadabrahma is the sound that pervades the whole universe.
Organised Indian music owes its origin to Sama Veda. The first reference to music was made by Panini 500BC. the first reference to musical theory is found in Rikpratisakhya 400BC.
Bharata's Natya shastra establishes clearly elaborating the octaves divided into 22 keys. Dathilam also endorses the existences of 22 sruti per octave and further claims that these twenty two are the only ones a human body can make.
In the beginning music was devotional in content and was purely used for ritualistic purposes restricted to temples.
Samagana: chanting of the verse set to musical patterns.
Jatigan evolved to narrate the epics. Prabandha Sangeet written in Sanskrit.
The Gupta period is considered a golden era in the development of Indian Music. Natya Shastra and Brihaddeshi are written during this period.
Indian classical music developed from the ritualistic music in association with folk music and other musical expressions developing into a characteristic art. two schools of Music resulted the Hindustani and Carnatic. The Carnatic is Kriti based and sahitya oriented while the Hindustani emphisises of musical structure and possibilities of improvisation in it. (Shudha swara saptaka) the carnatic music retained the traditional octave.
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