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In the field of music two kinds of appeals are cognisable. They may be termed as 'Primary' (Direct) and 'Secondary' (Indirect). Between Primary and Secondary appeals there are varieties of gradual transition. A performing artiste is always a creator. Creative artistry involves an intuitive mind. Historical memory serves as the background material for such an artistry. The link between history and artistry heightens the quality of aesthetic experience. Historical ...
The semantic content of an art like music (sruti and layam) is multidimensional. Totality of perceptions (perhaps infinite) can actualise all the meaningful possibility implicit in a branch like ‘Layam’. ‘Layam’ in this context is treated as a sub-discipline of concert-music, devotional music, (congregations like bajans) drama and dance. The aim of the study is to clarify certain parameters of the art of percussion. Percussion-art had cultivated aesthetic ...
The heterogeneous character of Thyagaraja’s lyrics is a recurrent source of academic discourse. The lyrics present a socio-cultural unit and refer to a plurality of achievements. An uncontested view is that, Thyagaraja stands for a single ideal of the culture of devotion. Prayer is the resultant of Bhakthi and Bhakthi establishes its due station as a Rasa. Prayer rests on and rises from the triple base of, music, devotion and poetry. Thyagaraja offered ...