Musical Change in Bangladesh
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul...” -- Plato
Music:
Music is an art form whose medium is sound, passes through the ears in human body & directly reaches the heart.
Common elements of music: 1. pitch : which governs melody and harmony, 2. rhythm: associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation, 3. dynamics, 4. The sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".
Greek philosophers and ancient Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.
Self observation: Music
But we, Authentic group found music as reflection of society which can describe its culture, norms, values & way of living.
Music also can define the mental state of human being. When a person decide to listen a music selection of music defines his mental state whether it’s fresh or gloomy.
Bangle music: Ancient Song Forms:
Although no transcriptions exist of Bengali music prior to the nineteenth century it is possible to delineate particular forms of vocal music from the texts of ancient Bengali poems and from melodies preserved through oral transmission. Twelfth-century Buddhist poems called charya-giti (religious observance songs) and the thirteenth-century Gitagovinda (Songs of the Cowherder), a cycle of songs by the poet Jayadeva, bear the names of the specific melodic modes assigned to each song. Hindu and Buddhist kings in Bengal commissioned poets to compose raso, epic poems, in their honor, which were chanted by the poet-composers themselves. These royal patrons also commissioned poets to render into Bengali verse the great Sanskrit epics from Indo-Aryan literature, such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and other mahakabya ("great poems"). The poetic meter employed in the Bengali versions of these epics is reflected in present-day Bengali folk ballads. By
Music:
Music is an art form whose medium is sound, passes through the ears in human body & directly reaches the heart.
Common elements of music: 1. pitch : which governs melody and harmony, 2. rhythm: associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation, 3. dynamics, 4. The sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".
Greek philosophers and ancient Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies.
Self observation: Music
But we, Authentic group found music as reflection of society which can describe its culture, norms, values & way of living.
Music also can define the mental state of human being. When a person decide to listen a music selection of music defines his mental state whether it’s fresh or gloomy.
Bangle music: Ancient Song Forms:
Although no transcriptions exist of Bengali music prior to the nineteenth century it is possible to delineate particular forms of vocal music from the texts of ancient Bengali poems and from melodies preserved through oral transmission. Twelfth-century Buddhist poems called charya-giti (religious observance songs) and the thirteenth-century Gitagovinda (Songs of the Cowherder), a cycle of songs by the poet Jayadeva, bear the names of the specific melodic modes assigned to each song. Hindu and Buddhist kings in Bengal commissioned poets to compose raso, epic poems, in their honor, which were chanted by the poet-composers themselves. These royal patrons also commissioned poets to render into Bengali verse the great Sanskrit epics from Indo-Aryan literature, such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and other mahakabya ("great poems"). The poetic meter employed in the Bengali versions of these epics is reflected in present-day Bengali folk ballads. By