Ancient, medieval & culture

Concepts to cover

1. Purandaradasa as father of Carnatic music (Mayamalavagowla); Annamacharya's Venkateshwara sankirtanas (fifteenth century, Tirupati)
2. Tyagaraja (Rama kritis, Pancharatna, new ragas, Thiruvaiyaru), Muthuswami Dikshitar, Syama Sastri (eighteenth to nineteenth century)
3. Venkatamakhin's seventy-two melakarta scheme and janya ragas; Shankarabharanam, Hanumatodi, Kamavardhini, Natabhairavi
4. Kriti, varnam, ragam-tanam-pallavi, tillana, javali, padam; kutcheri format
5. Differences: raga equivalents, tala systems, improvisation, instruments (veena, mridangam, violin adopted)