essay on Indian musicians
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Explanation: The 30,000 years old paleolithic and neolithic cave paintings at the UNESCO world heritage site at Bhimbetka rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh shows music instruments and dance.[1] Mesolithic and chalcolithic cave art of Bhimbhetka illustrates various musical instruments such as harp, drums, gongs, daf etc.[2]
Dancing Girl sculpture (2500 BCE) was found from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) site.[3][4][5][6] There are IVC-era paintings on pottery of a man with a dhol hanging from his neck and a woman holding a drum under her left arm.[7]
Vedas (c. 1500 – c. 800 BCE Vedic period)[8][9][10][11] document rituals with performing arts and play.[12][13] For example, Shatapatha Brahmana (~800–700 BCE) has verses in chapter 13.2 written in the form of a play between two actors.[12] Tala or taal is an ancient music concept traceable to Vedic era texts of Hinduism, such as the Samaveda and methods for singing the Vedic hymns.[14][15][16] Smriti (500 BCE to 100 BCE ) post-vedic Hindu texts[17][18][19] include Valmiki's Ramayana (500 BCE to 100 BCE) which mentions dance and music (dance by Apsaras such as Urvashi, Rambha, Menaka, Tilottama Panchāpsaras, and Ravana's wives excelling in nrityageeta or "singing and dancing" and nritavaditra or "playing musical instruments"), music and singing by Gandharvas, several string instruments (vina, tantri, vipanci and vallaki similar to veena), wind instruments (shankha, venu and venugana - likely a mouth organ made by tying several flutes together), raga (including kaushika such as raag kaushik dhwani), vocal registers (seven svara or sur, ana or ekashurti drag note, murchana the regulated rise and fall of voice in matra and tripramana three-fold teen taal laya such as drut or quick, madhya or middle, and vilambit or slow), poetry recitation in Bala Kanda and also in Uttara Kanda by Luv and Kusha in marga style.[20]
Under the Khiljis, there were concerts and competitions between Hindustani and Carnatic musicians.[21] Madhava Kandali, 14th century Assamese poet and writer of Saptakanda Ramayana, lists several instruments in his version of "Ramayana", such as mardala, khumuchi, bhemachi, dagar, gratal, ramtal, tabal, jhajhar, jinjiri, bheri mahari, tokari, dosari, kendara, dotara, vina, rudra-vipanchi, etc. (meaning that these instruments existed since his time in 14th century or earlier).[22] The Indian system of notation is perhaps the world's oldest and most elaborate.[23]
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the music of India is one of the oldest unspoken musical traditions in the world .
The basis of for Indian music is "sangeet".
Explanation:
sangeet is combination of two art forms 1) vocal music
2) instrumental music
Indian music is based upon seven modes furthermore the Indian scales follow the Same modulation that was found in ancient Greek music. since Greece is also Indo European connection this is another evidence for Indo European connection (dance and music of India) .
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