Music is the culmination of every art form, an integral part of the total Dramatic World of India – an essential element of the traditional theatre forms – that use music – vocal and instrumental – chants, various percussion rhythms, sounds and speech patterns with definite dramatic function. Bharat Muni in Natyashastra in his advice to the theatre practitioners says, “one should first of all bestow care on songs, for songs have been called the bed ...
