Friday, 22 April 2016

Compositions of Carnatic Music

Compositions of Carnatic Music

The tunes are alluded to as kritis or keerthanams. A considerable lot of these organizations are a couple of hundreds of years old. The most vital of the authors are Saint Thyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar and Syama Shastri, who are together called 'The Trinity'. They lived in the eighteenth century and introduced another period in the historical backdrop of Carnatic music through the assortment and differences in their pieces. There are various other unmistakable arrangers whose sytheses are similarly important. Purandara Dasa, Annamacharya, Arunachala Kavi, Bhadrachala Ramadas, Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi, Maharaja Swati Thirunal, Harikesanallur Muthaiah Bhagavatar, Papanasam Sivan, Gopalakrishna Bharathi and the rundown goes on. Typically the organizations are in South Indian dialects like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Sanskrit. Every so often a Hindi Bhajan or a Marati Abhag is additionally sung towards the end of a show.

More about the format of a Carnatic music concept


  • Varnam
  • Kritis
  • Sub-main item
  • Chauka kala kriti
  • Main item
  • Thukkada
  • Mangalam



After having covered the various aspects of manodharma sangeetham, lets now try to familiarize ourselves with the items presented in a regular carnatic music concert.  The present day kutcheri structure, followed by most musicians, is a format given by the legendary carnatic music vocalist, Shri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar.  

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