Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 110 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5144-7123-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ootthukkadu Venkata Kavi The Great!! (Telugu: ??????????? ????? ???,Tamil: ??????????? ?????? ???, Sanskrit: ?????????? ????? ???) (c.1700 - 1765 CE) was a prominent composer of Carnatic music. He lived in South India in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu. Also known by the name Oothukkadu Venkatasubba Iyer, he is attributed to over 400 compositions. These were handed down from generation to generation by the descendants of the composer's brother's family. Venkata Kavi's compositions reveal that he was a complete master of the science and art of music in all senses of the term – melody, rhythm or lyrics and was eloquent in Sanskrit and Tamil. He was proficient in a variety of musical forms such as the kriti, tillana and kavadichindu. He used talas and themes that not many other Carnatic composers have preferred to handle. His compositions are a blend of a high degree of scholarship on a variety of subjects and inspired expression. Several...