On the sixth day of Margazhi, sweet notes of a melody exploring the shankarabharanam raagam drifted out from Sathyanarayanan Krishnababu’s music studio in Chennai. Inside the room, Keyboard Sathya, as ...

In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

Once celebrated Carnatic instruments such as the morsing and the gethu vadyam are in need of a resurrection today The concert was nearly six hours long, with the ‘thani avarthanam’ itself lasting for ...

Western instruments have long been part of Carnatic music’s landscape. The violin is credited as one of the earliest to be adapted into Carnatic concerts in the early 19th century by Baluswami ...

CHENNAI:Prakash Hariharan started playing mandolin by chance. In the music industry, he is fondly called ‘Mandolin’ Prakash. Growing up in a south Indian household, it was mandatory for Prakash to ...

Although the word “aesthetic” may immediately evoke a fuzzy idea, most musical genres have a well-defined and well-orchestrated aesthetic that is readily understood by the initiated. For example, a ...

CBSE Sample Paper for Class 10 Carnatic Music (Melodic Instruments) Board Exam 2019 is available here for download in PDF format. You can download CBSE Class 10 ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American composer Shanker Krishnan’s system quite early in life. The legendary vocalist ...

Chennai: In India, classical music is said to be a male dominated space. Women were not allowed to give public performances for several years until Carnatic music saw some rule breakers like the ...

CBSE Sample Paper for Class 10 Carnatic Music (Percussion Instruments) Board Exam 2019 is available here for download in PDF format. You can download CBSE Class 10 ...