These are usually in ragas with a lot of scope for improvisation. The Main Course usually consists of 1 or 2 main pieces that the musician elaborates and shows his/her mastery of the piece/raga etc. Introductions consists of invokation pieces on Ganesha, Varnam, a small song, a slightly longer song in a "deeper" raga etc. This by no means is bounding.įor the purpose of this post I give below 2 links So you can use that as a reference to understand the structure.Īny concert can be divided into three parts - Introduction, Main Course, Culmination. Below, I present a more or less accepted structure. This means that any attempt at "defining the structure" will be incomplete at best. Unlike Western classical where the structure is more or less rigid, Carnatic music gives a lot of creative freedom to the musician. We were recently at a Carnatic concert and while he enjoyed the music, he couldn't quite grasp the structure of the concert so I promised him that I will write a post about it explaining everything.ĭISCLAIMER: As I have noted in several other posts, a vast majority of Carnatic rendition is manodharma music which literally means "that which feels right to the heart". I thought I had already written about this earlier but for some reason I cannot find it so no harm in writing once more.
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