write about the contribution of pandit vishnu narayan bhatkhande
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Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (10 August 1860 – 19 September 1936) was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani classical music, an art which had been propagated for centuries mostly through oral traditions. During those earlier times, the art had undergone several changes, rendering the raga grammar documented in scant old outdated texts.[2]
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
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Background information
Born
10 August 1860
Bombay, India[1]
Origin
India
Died
19 September 1936 (aged 76)[1]
Bombay, India[1]
Genres
Hindustani classicalMewati Gharana
Years active
1875–1935
Ragas used to be classified into Raga (male), Ragini (female), and Putra (children). Bhatkhande reclassified them into the currently used thaat system. He noted that several ragas did not conform to their description in ancient Sanskrit texts. He explained the ragas in an easy-to-understand language and composed several bandishes which explained the grammar of the ragas. He borrowed the idea of lakshan geet from the Carnatic music scholar Venkatamakhin.