Carnatic Music

Carnatic Music

Music is like the painting that is designed on a canvas with a brush that plays a role of colorful symbolic tone which shows a perception of colors developed from the painter who plays with it in a musical way. Cricket on waving its wings creates a sweet soulful sound found to be one of the natures sweeteners. Music is the illicit activities that can be performed without fear. It is originated from Samveda("Sam" means music). It is the instrumental mixture of tones which makes ones' life beautiful.
                         

History 

Carnatic music is the form of South Indian style of classical music which flourished in the 16th century during the Vijayanagara Kingdom.It is the form of music which is mostly sung with instruments such as veena, Rudra Veena, mridangam, violin, ghatam, nagaswaram, swarabhat. Purandara Dasa who is called as the father (Pitamaha) of Carnatic music formulated the system that is commonly used for the teaching of Carnatic music.

Nature 

The main emphasis in Carnatic music is on vocal voice; the most composition which is written is to be sung and also played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in the singing style (also called as "gayaki"). Likewise Hindustani Music, Carnatic music also dependant on two main elements raga or the modes or melodic formulae and tala, the rhythmic cycles. Nowadays Carnatic music is performed in the form of music concerts or recordings.

Important Elements 

Sruti commonly refers to a musical pitch which is like an approximate equivalent of a tonic in a western music. Swara refers to a musical sound that is the single note. Raga system in Carnatic music describes a set of rules for building a melody. Tala refers to the fixed cycle or meter.

Composition 

There are mainly two types of compositions Varnams and Kriti. Varnams are short metric pieces which intercept the main feature and requirements of a raga. Kritis are varied in structured and styles generally int three units Pallavi(1 line), anupallavi(1 or 2 lines) and charan.