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Carnatic

Carnatic Wars, a series of military conflicts in India during the 18th century


Amritavarshini

It is said that the Carnatic composer Muthuswami Dikshitar brought rain at Ettayapuram, Tamil Nadu, India by singing his composition Aanandaamrutakarshini Amrutavarshini.

Arun Luthra

Luthra has also performed and/or studied with such notable Hindustani and Carnatic music masters as Pandit Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Krishnan Lalgudi & Vijayalakshmi Lalgudi, Pandit Karaikudi Subramaniam, Steve Gorn, Kiran Ahluwalia, Sufi singer Zila Khan, and the iconic 1970s Indian cross-over star Asha Puthli.

Azim Jah

Azim Jah (died 1874) was the brother of Azam Jah, the eleventh Nawab of the Carnatic and uncle of Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, the twelfth and last Nawab of the Carnatic.

Battle of Trichinopolly

Battle of Golden Rock (26 June 1753) Lawrence defeats Astruc's attempt to recover Trichinopoly during Second Carnatic War

Carnatic rāga

For example, the raga pairs Bhairavi and Manji, Mayamalavagowla and Nadanamakriya, Bilahari and Mand, Shankarabharanam and Kurinji, among others, have exactly the same scale, but are clearly distinct ragas due to the way the notes and musical phrases are rendered.

Carnatic region

The misapplication of the name Carnatic was carried by the British a step further than by the Mahommedans, it being confined by them to the country below the Ghats, Mysore not being included.

The Nawab Saadet-Allah of Arcot (1710–1732) established his independence; his successor Dost Ali (1732–1740) conquered and annexed Madura in 1736, and his successors were confirmed in their position as Nawabs of the Carnatic by the Nizam of Hyderabad after that potentate had established his power in southern India.

Carnatic Treaty

Based on the terms of the treaty, the Nawab of Arcot (sometimes called the Nawab of the Carnatic) ceded all his lands to British rule, including the territory of the polygars.

Embar Kannan

Over the course of his Carnatic career he has accompanied many leading artists such as T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Trichur Ramachandran, T. N. Seshagopalan, Sudha Raghunathan, Kadri Gopalnath, P. Unnikrishnan, and S. Sowmya.

G. Devarajan

His music embraced different styles with the Carnatic and Hindusthani melody lines meeting folk idioms and western harmony.

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Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan

Ghouse Khan was born to the Azam Jah, the eleventh Nawab of the Carnatic in about 1824.

Jaysri-Jeyaraaj

They are directly descendants of the line of students of the well-known composer, Muthuswami Dikshitar, who is revered as one of the Trinity of Carnatic composers.

Kalaimamani

They include actors Nayantara, Tamanna,Mrs.Sujatha Peer Mohamed ( Barathanatiyam Dancer) Anushka and Arya, Carnatic vocalist Gayathri Girish, Veena players Rajhesh Vaidhya and S.Srinivasan, dramatist Prasanna Ramaswamy, spiritual orators Mangaiyarkkarasi and S Sathyaseelan, and Tamil scholar Tamizhannal and Dindigul I. Leoni.

Kaviyoor

Kaviyoor Revamma, Carnatic Musician, Ex-principal, Woman's College, Trivandrum

Kesavananda Bharati

He is a great Carnatic and Hindusthani vocalist and master of all sections of Yakshagana, the renowned art form and also has penned many devotional songs and dramas.

Mallur, Karnataka

The famous Kriti (musical composition or song) "Jagadodharana Adisidale Yasode" was composed by most prominent composer of Carnatic music Purandaradasa in appreciation of the beauty of this idol.

Manachanallur Giridharan

He is very fluent in Carnatic music Raga and their Swara and many of his compositions are based on Indian Classical ragas, thanks to Cuddalore Late Subramaniam Iyer, noted Carnatic music composer and vocalist who taught him the nuances of Carnatic Music in his younger years.

Mani Krishnaswami

Soundarya Lahari rendered by Mani Krishnaswami is considered by carnatic music connoisseurs as a musical treasure.

MSN Murthy

The family is known to have patronized and hosted most veteran Carnatic musicians - both well known and not so well known.

Nadir Shah Mosque

The mosque is believed to contain the remains of the Nawab Muhammad Ali of the Carnatic and the headless body of the general Chanda Sahib who was beheaded by a Thanjavur Maratha general.

Palghat Mani Iyer

He was the father of the noted carnatic musician Mrs Lalitha Sivakumar and was the grandfather of the noted singer Nithyasree Mahadevan.

Pallavi Seshayyar

As a singer, he was an expert of the techniques of Ragam-Thanam-Pallavi, a unique style of singing Carnatic music.

Poochi

Poochi Srinivasa Iyengar (1860–1919), singer and composer of Carnatic music

Puducode Krishnamurthy

Pudukode Krishnamurthy (1923–85) a disciple of Palakkad Rama Bhagavathar was a Carnatic musician and professor of music at various institutions such as Chembai Memorial Government Music College, Palakkad, Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram and Kalakshetra, Chennai.

Purandara Dasa

Young and well known artists such as Puttur Narasimha Nayak, Pandit Venkatesh Kumar, Nagaraja Rao Havaldar, Ganapathi Bhatt, Vidyabhushana, flautists Prapanchand performing Purandara Dasa's compositions and other dasa sahitya songs in Carnatic as well as Hindustani music concerts.

Rishi Valley School

Apart from academics, students participate in various cultural activities including: classical Indian dance (Bharatnatyam), Carnatic music, Mridangam, Violin, Tabla and Piano.

Robert Orme

He took an active part in the deliberations of the council respecting the military operations in the Carnatic, 1754–8, and recommended the appointment of Clive to command the expedition against Suráj-ud-Dowlah.

S. R. D. Vaidyanathan

'Sangeet Natak Academy' award (PURASKAR) given by Srimathi Pratibha Patil, President of India at a special ceremony at the Rastrapathi Bhawan with a citation and pursue money on 2008 for my contribution in the field of Carnatic Instrumental music Nagaswaram.

S. R. Janakiraman

He started learning Carnatic music in 1938 and learnt several compositions and under Thanneerpalli Krishnamurthi at Trichirapalli.In Chennai, he continued his musical training from masters including Tiger Varadachariar, Tiruppamburam Swaminatha Pillai and T Brinda.

Sasikumar

B. Sasikumar, Carnatic music violinist, musician, teacher, composer and writer from Kerala

Smitha Madhav

This institute was founded by one of the stalwarts and heavy weights in Carnatic Classical Music, Mrudangam maestro Karaikudi Mani.

Srimushnam V. Raja Rao

He has also received training in Carnatic vocal music from eminent teachers including Sarvashri Papanasam Sivan, Calcutta Krishnamurthy, and Mayuram Vaidyanatha Iyer.

SS Carnatic

In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it.

Sukumar prasad

Prasad began learning Carnatic music from a very young age from his uncle M. Chandrasekaran and mridangam with Trichy Sri. Raghavan Iyer.

T. M. Krishna

Krishna has featured in the Carnatic Concert Movie, Margazhi Raagam along with Bombay Jayashri in 2008

Married to Sangeetha Sivakumar, who is also a Carnatic musician, on November 7, 1997, he has two daughters by name Arya and Anantha, and livse in Mylapore.

T. V. Gopalakrishnan

Tirupanithurai Viswanatha Gopalakrishnan (born 11 June 1932 in Thripunithura, Kerala) is a Carnatic and Hindustani musician from Chennai.

Tiruchirapalli Rock Fort

The fort complex has witnessed fierce battles between Madurai Nayakas and Bijapur, Carnatic and Maratha forces.

Ugabhoga

In the modern era (around the 1950s), its popularity was revived in Carnatic music concerts by prominent performers such as M. L. Vasanthakumari of Tamil Nadu.

Unni

P. Unni Krishnan, (born 1966), Carnatic vocalist and playback singer.

V.R. Raghava Krishna

In September 2013 at his concert, featured by Nadabrahma Gana Sabha in Vanaprastha, Coimbatore, the graphic presentations revealed how he internalised the inner core and fertilised it by intense saadhakam (the way of learning, practising and mastering Carnatic Music).

Vellore A. R. Srinivasan

Vellore A. R. Srinivasan is a classical Carnatic musician as well as an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University in Pondicherry, India.


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