There are various references to this ancient musical tradition found in the ancient Sangam books such as Ettuthokai and Pattupattu.
Many poems of the classical Sangam literature were set to music. The ancient Tamil music is the historical predecessor of the Carnatic Music during the Sangam period (3 rd century BC to 4 th century AD) Arunachalam in his book TAMIZH ISAI ILAKKIYA VARALAARU.
GAMBHEERA NATTAI THEVARAM MANUALS
Though most of the music manuals written from the 9th century onwards were in Sanskrit, the source materials for them - like the varieties of ‘ragas’ ( pann) they had mentioned in their works - were all associated with the Tamil literary works, like ‘Silappadikaram’, ‘Thevaram’, and ‘Nalayira Divya Prabhandam’.” In no other language in India, there existed at that time Sahityas (musical compositions) as they did in Tamil. “The south Indian music system, which was indeed Tamil Pannisai, was erroneously named, for the first time, Karnataka sangeetham in the 12th century by a western-Chalukya king, Someswara Bhuloka Mamalla, in his ‘Manasoullasam’, a monumental work that dealt with all the subjects under the sun, including music. Students of music should understand the technical aspects of music narrated in the article. Wikipedia has been a great source to dwell in and the ever ending links allowed me to reproduce the knowledge as expressed in its cyber scale and here it is on the subject of an ancient Tamil Musicology which is Pannisai. I am very accepting of differing types of music from country to rock as I enjoy listening to its variety of expression. My musical sense is as acute as most humans but my musical learning is minimal to non-existent.
I have lived in the two continents India and the USA in equal parts over the last 76 years of my life.Īfter retiring from a very active banking career, my vocation has been to research on various subjects of my interest. I was only six months old when my parents moved to Delhi. I was born with my language which is Tamil.
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