Musical Instruments in Sanskrit Literature
by S. Karthick Raj KMoundinya | 2008 | 66,229 words
The essay studies the Musical Instruments in Sanskrit Literature and its relationship with the South Indian musical tradition. The study emphasizes the universal appeal of music and documents how it pervades various aspects of life, art, literature, painting, and sculpture. The thesis further examines the evolution of musical instruments from ancie...
Indian Folk Music
Folk music has rich aesthetic ingredients. Folk music has rich variety. Rhythmic aspects observed in occupations like agriculture, fishing etc., were transformed into the Talas a dominant aspect of Folk music. Folk music reveals rich aesthetic structures. In terms of identifying human beings, feelings and expressions, Folk music is more close to people than Classical music. But many of the folk tunes can be related to ragas like Anandabharavi, Punnagavarali and Yadukulakambhoji. Folk music instruments can be broadly classified into Percussion instruments, Wind instruments and String instruments. Of these three, Percussion instrument dominates over Wind instrument and String instruments. Folk Music had a strong rhythm oriented structural patterns, and it had their own moods and sentiments (rasa) attached to them. These broad classifications can again be subdivided to represent different feelings, environment etc. General classification of Folk music is listed below. 1. Thalattu (Lullaby) 2. Kummy (Hand beat) 3. Nadavu (Sowing in agriculture) 4. Oppari (Mournful music) 5. Themmangu (Agricultural music) 6. Lavani (Music duel) 7. Fisherman's music