Forwarded from History Optional (UPSC)
https://open.spotify.com/album/1r7y6jEmdNHzJIkmdiwfjf?si=g4u90EC9SMeuSFKd-5bUbA
This is one of the best music albums I have come across in 2022. The fills the very definition of classic-yet-new.
These compositions are by Muthuswami Dikshitar (18th c.), who is celebrated as one among the Trinity of Carnatic music.
According to one popular account, the violin was introduced into Carnatic music by Baluswami Dikshitar (1786–1858), the younger brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar. He encountered the instrument being played by British bands in colonial Madras, and decided to learn it. The music was mostly Irish and Scottish fiddling, rather than Western classical music. After three years of lessons, he adapted the violin to Carnatic music. It is believed that Muthuswami Dikshitar composed these lyrics to aid his brother master the plain notes on the violin.
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This is one of the best music albums I have come across in 2022. The fills the very definition of classic-yet-new.
These compositions are by Muthuswami Dikshitar (18th c.), who is celebrated as one among the Trinity of Carnatic music.
According to one popular account, the violin was introduced into Carnatic music by Baluswami Dikshitar (1786–1858), the younger brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar. He encountered the instrument being played by British bands in colonial Madras, and decided to learn it. The music was mostly Irish and Scottish fiddling, rather than Western classical music. After three years of lessons, he adapted the violin to Carnatic music. It is believed that Muthuswami Dikshitar composed these lyrics to aid his brother master the plain notes on the violin.
#music
@nikhilhistoryculture