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Sunday, January 20, 2019

classical Carnatic music


Well said.

Classical music is an ART where 

Aesthetic 
Rendering 
Takes precedence over 

Acrobatic 
Recreational 
Technical exhibitions as 

Adequate 
Repository of 
Technicalities are already embedded for embellishment and experience of aesthetics in the compositions.

Most important of them is aesthetic content which one must grasp and render according to the limitations of one's voice without excessive decorations or distortions.

This does not require excess of niravals, mixes of unmeasured  elongations of resonance with stresses and pauses, nexus of noisy accompaniments but very subtle nuances of well measured, structured and patterns of sound.

These are necessary only for compositions.

However , the artist is at liberty to unleash any frills in alapana and kalpana swaras.

If an artist can capture the nuances in various gamakas that alone  would be great.


Here is a very comprehensive and crystal clear demonstration of gamakas 


One of the most precise and perfect demonstration of minutest nuances of voice culture which go onto embellish a vocal rendering.

Voice Culture - Lecture demonstration - Dr. M Balamuralikrishna


Another good demo of voice culture impregnated with certain unique features of Indian classical music

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