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149-609: Kerala Kalamandalam , a deemed-to-be-University of Art and Culture by the Government of India, is a major centre for learning Indian performing arts , especially those that developed in the country's southern states, with special emphasis on those from Kerala . The institution, on the banks of the Bharathapuzha river, is situated in the small town of Cheruthuruthi in Thrissur district . The inception of Kalamandalam gave

298-522: A clapper and those struck on the inside or outside. Drums, which are not found from before the Shang, sometimes used bronze, though they were more often wooden ( bangu ). The aforementioned wind instruments certainly existed by the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE), as did the first Chinese string instruments: the qin (or guqin ) and se zithers . The Zhou saw the emergence of major court ensembles and

447-498: A combination of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound, and spectacle. Any one or more of these elements is considered performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style of plays, theater takes such forms as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, illusion , mime , classical Indian dance , kabuki , mummers' plays , improvisational theatre , comedy, pantomime , and non-conventional or contemporary forms like postmodern theatre , postdramatic theatre , or performance art. In

596-631: A common ancestor . Music first arose in the Paleolithic period, though it remains unclear as to whether this was the Middle (300,000 to 50,000  BP ) or Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,000 BP). The vast majority of Paleolithic instruments have been found in Europe and date to the Upper Paleolithic. It is certainly possible that singing emerged far before this time, though this

745-582: A form known today as opera . The first operas, written around 1600, also define the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque eras. Music prior to 1600 was modal rather than tonal . Several theoretical developments late in the 16th century, such as the writings on scales on modes by Gioseffo Zarlino and Franchinus Gaffurius , led directly to the development of common practice tonality. The major and minor scales began to predominate over

894-719: A grant-in-aid institution under the Cultural Affairs Department, Government of Kerala . In 2006, the Kalamandalam was accorded the status of 'Deemed University for Art and Culture' by the Government of India . In 2010, University Grants Commission (India) has given 'A' category status for Kerala Kalamandalam. Kalamandalam is the only deemed university in Kerala state accorded the prestigious status. The first Prime Minister to visit Kerala Kalamandalam

1043-464: A hundred years after his death. Many scholars believe that his reputation has been exaggerated by legend. Most of the chant repertory was composed anonymously in the centuries between the time of Gregory and Charlemagne . During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of

1192-690: A local temple and using puppetry for religious plays. At the ancient capital Angkor Wat , stories from the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata have been carved on the walls of temples and palaces. Similar reliefs are found at Borobudur in Indonesia. In the Philippines , the famous epic poem Ibong Adarna , originally titled "Korido at Buhay na Pinagdaanan ng Tatlong Prinsipeng Magkakapatid na anak nina Haring Fernando at Reyna Valeriana sa Kahariang Berbania" (English: " Corrido and Life Lived by

1341-513: A man who shakes two objects thought to be maracas . Another sculpture includes a man with his mouth opening (possibly singing) while there is also a sculpture of a man playing a drum. The imperial court of Japan developed gagaku (( 雅楽 ); lit.   ' elegant music ' ) music, originating from the Gagakuryō imperial music academy established in 701 CE during the Asuka period . Though

1490-555: A profound influence on Joseph Haydn and, through him, on all subsequent European music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the central figure of the Classical period, and his phenomenal and varied output in all genres defines our perception of the period. Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert were transitional composers, leading into the Romantic period, with their expansion of existing genres, forms, and even functions of music. In

1639-548: A prominent musical culture in the Empire, especially in the areas dominated by Zoroastrianism . Many Sassanian Shahanshahs were ardent supporters of music, including the founder of the empire Ardashir I and Bahram V . Khosrow II ( r.  590–628 ) was the most outstanding patron , his reign being regarded as a golden age of Persian music. Musicians in Khosrow's service include Āzādvar-e Changi (or Āzād), Bamshad ,

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1788-416: A repeated pattern typically in the left hand), were used to liven the movement of the piece without creating a confusing additional voice. The now-popular instrumental music was dominated by several well-defined forms: the sonata , the symphony , and the concerto , though none of these were specifically defined or taught at the time as they are now in music theory . All three derive from sonata form , which

1937-465: A second life to three major classical performing arts of Kerala , bringing out Kathakali , Kudiyattam and Mohiniyattam from a state of near-extinction in the early 20th century. Amidst its abyss, in 1927, poet Vallathol Narayana Menon and art-promoter Mukunda Raja came forward and formed a society called Kerala Kalamandalam. They solicited donations from the public and conducted a lottery in order to raise funds for this society. Kerala Kalamandalam

2086-508: A span of several decades around 1600. Famous composers in Venice included the Gabrielis, Andrea and Giovanni , as well as Claudio Monteverdi , one of the most significant innovators at the end of the era. Most parts of Europe had active and well-differentiated musical traditions by late in the century. In England, composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd wrote sacred music in

2235-555: A special part entitled " Kay Selya " (English: "For Celia") specially dedicated for Rivera. The Philippine 's national hero, José Rizal who is also a novelist, created the two famous poems in the Philippines, Noli Me Tángere ( Latin for "Touch me not", with an acute accent added on the final word in accordance with Spanish orthography ) (1887) that describes perceived inequities of the Spanish Catholic friars and

2384-459: A style similar to that written on the continent, while an active group of home-grown madrigalists adapted the Italian form for English tastes: famous composers included Thomas Morley , John Wilbye and Thomas Weelkes . Spain developed instrumental and vocal styles of its own, with Tomás Luis de Victoria writing refined music similar to that of Palestrina, and numerous other composers writing for

2533-415: A theoretical treatise on Indian performing arts, including theatre, dance, acting, and music, which has been compared to Aristotle 's Poetics . Bharata is often known as the father of Indian theatrical arts. His Natya Shastra seems to be the first attempt to develop the technique or rather art, of drama in a systematic manner. The Natya Shastra tells us not only what is to be portrayed in a drama, but how

2682-426: A very colorful shadow. The thin rods that controlled their movements were attached to a leather collar at the neck of the puppet. The rods ran parallel to the bodies of the puppet then turned at a ninety-degree angle to connect to the neck. While these rods were visible when the shadow was cast, they laid outside the shadow of the puppet; thus, they did not interfere with the appearance of the figure. The rods attached at

2831-668: Is Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 for the Silver Jubilee of the Kerala Kalamandalam. Indira Gandhi was the second Prime Minister to visit Kerala Kalamandalam in 1980 and V. P. Singh in 1990. Manmohan Singh is the fourth Prime Minister to visit Kerala Kalamandalam in September 2012. Kalamandalam imparts training in classical dance and theatre forms like Kathakali , Mohiniyattam , Kudiyattam , Thullal , Kuchipudi , Bharatanatyam , and Nangiar Koothu , besides

2980-590: Is a West African oral historian who uses storytelling, poetry, and music to express the genealogies and historical narratives of the tribes they represent, often playing instruments such as the kora . This ancient profession is upheld in a position of community leadership. The most popular forms of theater in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre (which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions) and live passion plays known as ta'ziya , where actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history . In particular, Shia Islamic plays revolved around

3129-443: Is a powerful impulse, but the art of dance is that impulse channeled by skillful performers into something that becomes intensely expressive and that may delight spectators who feel no wish to dance themselves. These two concepts of the art of dance—dance as a powerful impulse and dance as a skillfully choreographed art practiced largely by a professional few—are the two most important connecting ideas running through any consideration of

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3278-422: Is also a specialized form of fine art, in which the artists perform their work live to an audience. This is called performance art . Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art , perhaps in the creation of props . Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the modern dance era. Theatre is the branch of performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience, using

3427-476: Is both the overlying form of an entire work and the structure of a single movement. Sonata form matured during the Classical era to become the primary form of instrumental compositions throughout the 19th century. The early Classical period was ushered in by the Mannheim School , which included such composers as Johann Stamitz , Franz Xaver Richter , Carl Stamitz , and Christian Cannabich . It exerted

3576-405: Is divided into genres such as folk , jazz , hip hop , pop, and rock, etc. As an art form, music can occur in live or recorded formats, and can be planned or improvised. As music is a protean art, it easily coordinates with words for songs as physical movements do in dance. Moreover, it has a capability of shaping human behaviors as it impacts our emotions. Starting in the 6th century BC,

3725-631: Is divided into three perspectives: whether music began as a kind of proto-language (a result of adaptation ) that led to language; if music is a spandrel (a phenotypic by-product of evolution) that was the result of language; or if music and language both derived from a common antecedent. There is little consensus on any particular theory for the origin of music, which have included contributions from archaeologists, cognitive scientists, ethnomusicologists , evolutionary biologists , linguists, neuroscientists, paleoanthropologists , philosophers, and psychologists ( developmental and social ). Some of

3874-671: Is essentially impossible to confirm. The potentially oldest instrument is the Divje Babe Flute from the Divje Babe cave in Slovenia, dated to 43,000 and 82,000 and made from a young cave bear femur . Purportedly used by Neanderthals , the Divje Babe Flute has received extensive scholarly attention, and whether it is truly a musical instrument or an object formed by animals is the subject of intense debate. If

4023-559: Is extremely complex. Konstantin Stanislavski 's "System" revolutionized acting in the early 20th century, and continues to have a major influence on actors of stage and screen to the current day. Both impressionism and modern realism were introduced to the stage during this period. With the invention of the motion picture in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and the growth of the motion picture industry in Hollywood in

4172-540: Is first firmly dated to c.  40,000   BP of the Upper Paleolithic by evidence of bone flutes , though it remains unclear whether or not the actual origins lie in the earlier Middle Paleolithic period (300,000 to 50,000 BP). There is little known about prehistoric music, with traces mainly limited to some simple flutes and percussion instruments. However, such evidence indicates that music existed to some extent in prehistoric societies such as

4321-550: Is grouped with the medieval era in music, even though it had much in common with early Renaissance ideals and aesthetics . Much of the surviving music of the time is secular, and tends to use the formes fixes : the ballade , the virelai , the lai , the rondeau , which correspond to poetic forms of the same names. Most pieces in these forms are for one to three voices, likely with instrumental accompaniment: famous composers include Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Landini . Prominent and diverse musical practices were present in

4470-588: Is mainly available through literature, visual depictions, and increasingly as the period progresses, instruments. The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit , Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c.  1400 BCE. However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition. Dated to

4619-538: Is monophonic and based on a single melody line or raga rhythmically organized through talas . The beginning of the Renaissance in music is not as clearly marked as the beginning of the Renaissance in the other arts, and unlike in the other arts, it did not begin in Italy , but in northern Europe, specifically in the area currently comprising central and northern France , the Netherlands , and Belgium . The style of

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4768-429: Is one another modern form of dance that emerged in 19th- 20th century with the name of free dance style. This form of dance was structured to create a harmonious personality which included features such as physical and spiritual freedom. Isadora Duncan was the first female dancer who argued about "woman of future" and developed novel vector of choreography using Nietzsche 's idea of "supreme mind in free mind". Dance

4917-559: Is probable that they existed well before their artistic depictions. Elamite bull lyres from c.  2450 have been found in Susa , while more than 40 small Oxus trumpets have been found in Bactria and Margiana , dated to the c.  2200–1750 Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex . The oxus trumpets seem to have had a close association with both religion and animals; a Zoroastrian myth in which Jamshid attract animals with

5066-740: Is represented, no play has ever surpassed the tragedy known in the Mussulman world as that of Hasan and Husain ." Years later Peter Chelkowski, professor of Iranian and Islamic studies at NYU , chooses the same words for the beginning of his book 'Ta`ziyeh, ritual and drama in Iran'. Live secular plays were known as akhraja , recorded in medieval adab literature, though they were less common than puppetry and ta'ziya theater. In Iran there are other forms of theatrical events such as Naghali or Naqqāli (story telling), Ta'zieh , ٰRu-Howzi , Siah-Bazi , Parde-Khani , and Mareke giri . Prior to

5215-550: Is traditionally credited as the genre's originator, though modern scholars now doubt this attribution. The kañon reached its peak with the music of John of Damascus and Cosmas of Maiuma and later Theodore of Stoudios and Theophanes the Branded in the 8th and 9th centuries respectively. Composers of secular music are considerably less documented. Not until late in the empire's history are composers known by name, with Joannes Koukouzeles , Xenos Korones and Joannes Glykys as

5364-672: Is unrecorded). Only the latter has any surviving work, a single antiphon . Some Byzantine emperors are known to have been composers, such as Leo VI the Wise and Constantine VII . During the ancient and medieval periods, the classical music of the Indian subcontinent was a largely unified practice. By the 14th century, socio-political turmoil inaugurated by the Delhi Sultanate began to isolate Northern and Southern India, and independent traditions in each region began emerging. By

5513-420: The shaheed (martyrdom) of Ali 's sons Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali . It commonly refers to passion plays about the battle of Karbala and its prior and subsequent events. Sir Lewis Pelly begins the preface of his book about Ta'zieh maintaining that "If the success of a drama is to be measured by the effects which it produces upon the people for whom it is composed, or upon the audiences before whom it

5662-576: The Broadway musical became a phenomenon in the United States. Post-World War II performing arts were highlighted by the resurgence of both ballet and opera in the Western world. Postmodernism dominated the performing arts during the 1970s and the 1980s. Indigenous African performance traditions are rooted in ritual , storytelling, movement , and music . Performances were communal with

5811-614: The Burgundian composers, as the first generation of the Franco-Flemish school is known, was at first a reaction against the excessive complexity and mannered style of the late 14th century ars subtilior , and contained clear, singable melody and balanced polyphony in all voices. The most famous composers of the Burgundian school in the mid-15th century are Guillaume Dufay , Gilles Binchois , and Antoine Busnois . By

5960-626: The Byzantine Empire , which existed by 395 to 1453. Both sacred and secular music were commonplace, with sacred music frequently used in church services and secular music in many events including, ceremonies dramas, ballets, banquets, festivals and sports games. However, despite its popularity, secular Byzantine music was harshly criticized by the Church Fathers , particularly Jerome . Composers of sacred music, especially hymns and chants, are generally well documented throughout

6109-593: The Cave of the Trois-Frères dating to c.  15,000 BCE is thought to depict a shaman playing a musical bow . Prehistoric cultures are thought to have had a wide variety of uses for music, with little unification between different societies. Music was likely of particular value when food and other basic needs were scarce. It is also probable that prehistoric cultures viewed music as intrinsically connected with nature, and may have believed its use influenced

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6258-518: The Classical period is characterized by homophonic texture , or an obvious melody with accompaniment . These new melodies tended to be almost voice-like and singable, allowing composers to actually replace singers as the focus of the music. Instrumental music therefore quickly replaced opera and other sung forms (such as oratorio ) as the favorite of the musical audience and the epitome of great composition. However, opera did not disappear: during

6407-531: The Classical period of performing art began in Greece , ushered in by the tragic poets such as Sophocles . These poets wrote plays which, in some cases, incorporated dance (see Euripides ). The Hellenistic period began the widespread use of comedy. However, by the 6th century AD, Western performing arts had been largely ended as the Dark Ages began. Between the 9th century and 14th century, performing art in

6556-646: The Elizabethan masque , featuring music, dance and elaborate costumes as well as professional theatrical companies in England. William Shakespeare 's plays in the late 16th century developed from this new class of professional performance. In 1597, the first opera, Dafne was performed and throughout the 17th century, opera would rapidly become the entertainment of choice for the aristocracy in most of Europe, and eventually for large numbers of people living in cities and towns throughout Europe. The introduction of

6705-487: The Florentine Camerata , who ironically had a reactionary intent: dissatisfied with what they saw as contemporary musical depravities, their goal was to restore the music of the ancient Greeks. Chief among them were Vincenzo Galilei , the father of the astronomer, and Giulio Caccini . The fruits of their labors was a declamatory melodic singing style known as monody , and a corresponding staged dramatic form:

6854-566: The Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE), there were attempts to reconstruct the music of the Shang and Zhou, as it was now "idealized as perfect". A Music Bureau , the Yuefu , was founded or at its height by at least 120 BCE under Emperor Wu of Han , and was responsible for collecting folksongs. The purpose of this was twofold; it allowed the Imperial Court to properly understand the thoughts of

7003-525: The Late Shang dynasty had developed writing, which mostly exists as divinatory inscriptions on the ritualistic oracle bones but also as bronze inscriptions . As many as 11 oracle script characters may refer to music to some extent, some of which could be iconographical representations of instruments themselves. The stone bells qing appears to have been particularly popular with the Shang ruling class, and while no surviving flutes have been dated to

7152-635: The Shahnameh . These stories were often altered to bond with the atmosphere or mood of the audience. Folk theatre and dramatics can be traced to the religious ritualism of the Vedic peoples in the 2nd millennium BC . This folk theatre of the misty past was mixed with dance, food, ritualism, plus a depiction of events from daily life. The last element made it the origin of the classical theatre of later times. Many historians, notably D. D. Kosambi, Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Adya Rangacharaya, etc. have referred to

7301-824: The Shang dynasty ; they often involved music, clowning and acrobatic displays. The Tang dynasty is sometimes known as "The Age of 1000 Entertainments". During this era, Emperor Xuanzong formed an acting school known as the Children of the Pear Garden to produce a form of drama that was primarily musical. During the Han Dynasty, shadow puppetry first emerged as a recognized form of theatre in China. There were two distinct forms of shadow puppetry, Cantonese southern and Pekingese northern. The two styles were differentiated by

7450-478: The Silk Road . For example, a tuning key for a qin -zither from 4th–5th centuries BCE China includes considerable Persian iconography. In general, not enough information exists to make many other generalizations about ancient music between cultures. The few actual examples of ancient music notation that survive usually exist on papyrus or clay tablets . Information on musical practices, genres, and thought

7599-725: The Swabian Jura , Germany, namely from the Geissenklösterle , Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves. Dated to the Aurignacian (of the Upper Paleolithic) and used by Early European modern humans , from all three caves there are eight examples, four made from the wing bones of birds and four from mammoth ivory ; three of these are near complete. Three flutes from the Geissenklösterle are dated as

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7748-643: The Tang dynasty 's music being heavily influenced by Central Asian traditions, while the Tang dynasty's music, the Japanese gagaku and Korean court music each influenced each other. Historically, religions have often been catalysts for music. The Vedas of Hinduism immensely influenced Indian classical music , and the Five Classics of Confucianism laid the basis for subsequent Chinese music . Following

7897-512: The Vedas to the works of Kalidasa and the Ilango Adigal 's epic Silappatikaram . Despite this, little is known on the actual musical practices of ancient India and the information available forces a somewhat homogeneous perspective on the music of the time, even though evidence indicates that in reality, it was far more diverse. The monumental arts treatise Natya Shastra is among

8046-520: The Western Zhou period (1045–771). The Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE), established by Qin Shi Huang , lasted for only 15 years, but the purported burning of books resulted in a substantial loss of previous musical literature. The Qin saw the guzheng become a particularly popular instrument; as a more portable and louder zither, it meet the needs of an emerging popular music scene. During

8195-549: The Xia dynasty and the Indus Valley civilisation . Upon the development of writing, the music of literate civilizations— ancient music —was present in the major Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Middle Eastern societies. It is difficult to make many generalizations about ancient music as a whole, but from what is known it was often characterized by monophony and improvisation . In ancient song forms,

8344-682: The avant-garde style of the Ferrara School of Luzzaschi and the late century madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo ; and the grandiose, sonorous music of the Venetian school , which used the architecture of the Basilica San Marco di Venezia to create antiphonal contrasts. The music of the Venetian school included the development of orchestration , ornamented instrumental parts, and continuo bass parts, all of which occurred within

8493-462: The fugue , the invention , the sonata , and the concerto. The late Baroque style was polyphonically complex and richly ornamented. Important composers from the Baroque era include Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Johann Sebastian Bach , Arcangelo Corelli , François Couperin , Girolamo Frescobaldi , George Frideric Handel , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Claudio Monteverdi , Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi . The music of

8642-410: The gōsān learned songs telling tales of gods and noblemen, while Plutarch similarly records the gōsān lauding Parthian heroes and mocking Roman ones. Plutarch also records, much to his bafflement, that rhoptra (large drums) were used by the Parthian army to prepare for war. The Sasanian period (226–651 CE), however, has left ample evidence of music. This influx of Sasanian records suggests

8791-456: The origin of language , with much disagreement surrounding whether music arose before, after or simultaneously with language . Many theories have been proposed by scholars from a wide range of disciplines, though none has achieved broad approval. Most cultures have their own mythical origins concerning the invention of music, generally rooted in their respective mythological, religious or philosophical beliefs. The music of prehistoric cultures

8940-421: The origins of music will ever be understood, with scholars often taking polarizing positions. The origin of music is often discussed alongside the origin of language , with the nature of their connection being the subject of much debate. However, before the mid-late 20th century, both topics were seldom given substantial attention by academics. Since the topic's resurgence, the principal source of contention

9089-413: The proscenium arch in Italy during the 17th century established the traditional theatre form that persists to this day. Meanwhile, in England, the Puritans forbade acting, bringing a halt to performing arts that lasted until 1660. After that, women began to appear in both French and English plays. The French introduced a formal dance instruction in the late 17th century. It is also during this time that

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9238-403: The 16th century was renowned as one of the greatest artists in any form. Music in the generation after Josquin explored increasing complexity of counterpoint ; possibly the most extreme expression is in the music of Nicolas Gombert , whose contrapuntal complexities influenced early instrumental music, such as the canzona and the ricercar , ultimately culminating in Baroque fugal forms. By

9387-440: The 16th-century two distinct styles had formed: the Hindustani classical music of the North and the Carnatic classical music of the South. One of the major differences between them is that the Northern Hindustani vein was considerably influenced by the Persian and Arab musical practices of the time. Carnatic music is largely devotional; the majority of the songs are addressed to the Hindu deities. Indian classical music (marga)

9536-420: The 2nd Century CE or later, it is an epitaph , perhaps for the wife of the unknown Seikilos. They strike the bells, kin , kin , They play the se -zither, play the qin -zither, The mouth organ and chime stones sound together; They sing the Ya and Nan Odes, And perform flawlessly upon their flutes. Shijing , Ode 208, Gu Zhong Translated by John S. Major By the mid-13th century BCE,

9685-481: The 8th to 11th centuries. A major shift in gagaku music occurred in the 9th century, namely the development of a distinction between tōgaku and komagaku music. Tōgaku was a Chinese-influenced style, which combined with the rin’yūgaku tradition, referred to as "Music of the Left" ( sahō ). Komagaku was then referred to as "Music of the Right" ( uhō ), encompassing music influenced by both Korea ( sankangaku ) and Balhae ( bokkaigaku ). Though this division

9834-781: The Achaemenid musical culture comes from Greek historians. In his Histories , Herodotus noted that Achaemenid priests did not use aulos music in their ceremonies, while Xenophon reflected on his visit to Persia in the Cyropaedia , mentioning the presence of many female singers at court. Athenaeus also mentions female singers when noting that 329 of them had been taken from the King of Kings Darius III by Macedonian general Parmenion . Later Persian texts assert that gōsān poet-musician minstrels were prominent and of considerable status in court. The Parthian Empire (247 BCE to 224 CE) saw an increase in textual and iconographical depictions of musical activity and instruments. 2nd century BCE Parthian rhuta (drinking horns) found in

9983-453: The Bureau's increasingly prominent suyue music which conflicted with Confucianism. The Han dynasty saw a preponderance of foreign musical influences from the Middle East and Central Asia : the emerging Silk Road led to the exchange of musical instruments, and allowed travelers such as Zhang Qian to relay with new musical genres and techniques. Instruments from said cultural transmission include metal trumpets and instruments similar to

10132-464: The Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum . Third, and of the greatest significance for music history, notation was reinvented after a lapse of about five hundred years, though it would be several more centuries before a system of pitch and rhythm notation evolved having the precision and flexibility that modern musicians take for granted. Several schools of polyphony flourished in

10281-605: The Memorandum of Association and Rules and subsequently the title "Chairman" was substituted by "Vice-Chancellor" (since 2007) Performing arts Theatre , music, gymnastics, object manipulation , and other kinds of performances are present in all human cultures. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times whereas circus skills date to at least Ancient Egypt . Many performing arts are performed professionally. Performance can be in purpose-built buildings, such as theatres and opera houses, on open air stages at festivals, on stages in tents such as circuses or on

10430-444: The Philippines. Florante at Laura is an " awit " or a poem consisting of 12-syllable quatrains with the full title "Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at ni Laura sa Kahariang Albanya" (English: "The History of Florante and Laura in the Kingdom of Albania ") was written by Francisco Balagtas in 1838 during his imprisonment dedicated to his sweetheart Maria Asuncuion Rivera (nicknamed "M.A.R.", referenced to as "Selya"). The poem has

10579-412: The Romantic period, music became more expressive and emotional, expanding to encompass literature, art, and philosophy. Famous early Romantic composers include Schumann , Chopin , Mendelssohn , Bellini , Donizetti , and Berlioz . The late 19th century saw a dramatic expansion in the size of the orchestra , and in the role of concerts as part of urban society. Famous composers from the second half of

10728-524: The Shang and Zhou music was a symbol of power for the Imperial court, being used in religious services as well as the celebration of ancestors and heroes. Confucius ( c.  551–479 ) formally designated the music concerned with ritual and ideal morality as the superior yayue ( 雅樂 ; "proper music"), in opposition to suyue ( 俗樂 ; "vernacular/popular music"), which included virtually all non-ceremonial music, but particularly any that

10877-441: The Shang, oracle script evidence suggests they used ocarinas ( xun ), transverse flute ( xiao and dizi ), douple pipes, the mouthorgan ( sheng ), and maybe the pan flute ( paixiao ). Due to the advent of the bronze in 2000 BCE , the Shang used the material for bells—the ling  [ zh ] (鈴), nao  [ zh ] (鐃) and zhong (鐘) —that can be differentiated in two ways: those with or without

11026-580: The Three Princes, children of King Fernando and Queen Valeriana in the Kingdom of Berbania") from the 16th century was written by José de la Cruz during the Spanish era . Aside from theatrical performances, different films were produced by different film studios/ television productions. The first produced "Ang Ibong Adarna" film was produced by LVN Pictures , the biggest film studio in the history of

11175-567: The West was limited to religious historical enactments and morality plays , organized by the Church in celebration of holy days and other important events. In the 15th century performing arts, along with the arts in general, saw a revival as the Renaissance began in Italy and spread throughout Europe plays, some of which incorporated dance, which were performed and Domenico da Piacenza credited with

11324-399: The ancient capital of Nisa include some of the most vivid depictions of musicians from the time. Pictorial evidence such as terracotta plaques show female harpists, while plaques from Babylon show panpipes , as well as string (harps, lutes and lyres) and percussion instruments ( tambourines and clappers ). Bronze statues from Dura-Europos depict larger panpipes and double aulos. Music

11473-406: The attitudes toward musicians and composers all vary between regions and periods. Many cultures have or continue to distinguish between art music (or 'classical music'), folk music , and popular music . "But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites

11622-459: The basis for the later Baroque organ style which culminated in the work of J.S. Bach . France developed a unique style of musical diction known as musique mesurée , used in secular chansons, with composers such as Guillaume Costeley and Claude Le Jeune prominent in the movement. One of the most revolutionary movements in the era took place in Florence in the 1570s and 1580s, with the work of

11771-627: The best known of which is Beijing Opera, which is still popular today. In Thailand , it has been a tradition from the Middle Ages to stage plays based on plots drawn from Indian epics. In particular, the theatrical version of Thailand's national epic Ramakien , a version of the Indian Ramayana , remains popular in Thailand even today. In Cambodia , inscriptions dating back to the 6th century AD indicates evidence of dancers at

11920-400: The century include Johann Strauss II , Brahms , Liszt , Tchaikovsky , Verdi , and Wagner . Between 1890 and 1910, a third wave of composers including Grieg , Dvořák , Mahler , Richard Strauss , Puccini , and Sibelius built on the work of middle Romantic composers to create even more complex – and often much longer – musical works. A prominent mark of late 19th-century music

12069-530: The classical period, several composers began producing operas for the general public in their native languages (previous operas were generally in Italian). Along with the gradual displacement of the voice in favor of stronger, clearer melodies, counterpoint also typically became a decorative flourish, often used near the end of a work or for a single movement . In its stead, simple patterns, such as arpeggios and, in piano music, Alberti bass (an accompaniment with

12218-479: The common people, and it was also an opportunity for the Imperial Court to adapt and manipulate the songs to suit propaganda and political purposes. Employing ceremonial, entertainment-oriented and military musicians, the Bureau also performed at a variety of venues, wrote new music, and set music to commissioned poetry by noted figures such as Sima Xiangru . The Han dynasty had officially adopted Confucianism as

12367-417: The context of performing arts, dance generally refers to human movement , typically rhythmic and to music, used as a form of audience entertainment in a performance setting. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social , cultural , aesthetic , artistic , and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance ) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet . There

12516-526: The contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge." Claude Lévi-Strauss , The Raw and the Cooked Music is regarded as a cultural universal , though definitions of it vary depending on culture and throughout history. As with many aspects of human cognition , it remains debated as to what extent

12665-662: The country's system made no effect and seemed impossible with the corrupt attitude of the Spaniards toward the Filipinos. These novels were written during the colonization of the Philippines by the Spanish Empire . History of music Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal . The origins of music remain highly contentious; commentators often relate it to

12814-665: The dominance of text in musical settings. Varying song forms were present in Ancient cultures, including China, Egypt, Greece, India, Mesopotamia, Rome, and the Middle East. The text, rhythm, and melodies of these songs were closely aligned, as was music in general, with magic, science, and religion. Complex song forms developed in later ancient societies, particularly the national festivals of China, Greece, and India. Later Ancient societies also saw increased trade and transmission of musical ideas and instruments, often shepherded by

12963-642: The earliest Indian dramatists and they do it even today. Indian dramatists such as Bhāsa in the 2nd century BC wrote plays that were heavily inspired by the Ramayana and Mahabharata . Kālidāsa in the 1st century BC, is arguably considered to be ancient India 's greatest dramatist. Three famous romantic plays written by Kālidāsa are the Mālavikāgnimitram ( Mālavikā and Agnimitra ), Vikramōrvaśīyam ( Pertaining to Vikrama and Urvashi ), and Abhijñānaśākuntala ( The Recognition of Shakuntala ). The last

13112-514: The earliest and chief sources for Ancient Indian music; the music portions alone are likely from the Gupta period (4th century to 6th century CE). In general, it is impossible to create a thorough outline of the earliest music in Persia due to a paucity of surviving records. Evidenced by c.  3300–3100 BCE Elam depictions, arched harps are the first affirmation of Persian music, though it

13261-404: The early 20th century, film became a dominant performance medium throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Rhythm and blues , a cultural phenomenon of black America, rose to prominence in the early 20th century, influencing a range of later popular music styles internationally. In the 1930s Jean Rosenthal introduced what would become modern stage lighting , changing the nature of the stage as

13410-496: The evidence in terracotta plaques, by the 2nd-century BCE the arched harp was displaced by the angular harps , which existed in 20-string vertical and nine-string horizontal variants. Lutes were purportedly used in Mesopotamia by at least 2300 BCE, but not until c.  1300 BCE do they appear in Iran, where they became the dominant string instruments of Western Iran , though the available evidence suggests its popularity

13559-769: The first operas (dramatic solo vocal music accompanied by orchestra) were written. During the Baroque era, polyphonic contrapuntal music, in which multiple, simultaneous independent melody lines were used, remained important (counterpoint was important in the vocal music of the Medieval era). German, Italian, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, and English Baroque composers wrote for small ensembles including strings , brass , and woodwinds , as well as for choirs and keyboard instruments such as pipe organ , harpsichord , and clavichord . During this period several major music forms were defined that lasted into later periods when they were expanded and evolved further, including

13708-538: The first plays were performed in the American Colonies . During the 18th century, the introduction of the popular opera buffa brought opera to the masses as an accessible form of performance. Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni are landmarks of the late 18th century opera. At the turn of the 19th century, Beethoven and the Romantic movement ushered in a new era that led first to

13857-488: The first use of the term ballo (in De Arte Saltandi et Choreas Ducendi ) instead of danza (dance) for his baletti or balli . The term eventually became Ballet . The first Ballet per se is thought to be Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx 's Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581). By the mid-16th century Commedia Dell'arte became popular in Europe, introducing the use of improvisation . This period also introduced

14006-502: The former, it would be the oldest known musical instrument and evidence of a musical culture in the Middle Paleolithic. Other than the Divje Babe Flute and three other doubtful flutes, there is virtually no surviving Middle Paleolithic musical evidence of any certainty, similar to the situation in regards to visual art . The earliest objects whose designations as musical instruments are widely accepted are bone flutes from

14155-584: The forms, ideas, and the musical aesthetic of the troubadours, courtly poets, and itinerant musicians, whose culture was largely exterminated during the Albigensian Crusade in the early 13th century. Forms of sacred music which developed during the late 13th century included the motet , conductus , discant , and clausulae . One unusual development was the Geisslerlieder , the music of wandering bands of flagellants during two periods:

14304-474: The general uncertainty surrounding most of the Xia, creating a musical narrative of the period is impractical. In the Indian subcontinent , the prehistoric Indus Valley civilisation (from c.  2500–2000 BCE in its mature state) has archeological evidence that indicates simple rattles and vessel flutes were used, while iconographical evidence suggests early harps and drums also existed. An ideogram in

14453-485: The god Osiris was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization, marking the known beginning of a long relationship between theatre and religion. The Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus , the oldest surviving illustrated papyrus details the performance during the Sed Festival and has been used as evidence of the birth of theatrical tradition, which western scholars often attribute to ancient Greece. A Griot

14602-548: The harpist Nagisa (Nakisa), Ramtin , Sarkash and Barbad , who was the most famous. These musicians were usually active as minstrels , which were performers who worked as both court poets and musicians; in the Sassanian Empire there was little distinction between poetry and music. The Western African Nok culture (modern-day Nigeria) existed from c.  500–200 BCE and left a considerable amount of sculptures. Among these are depictions of music, such as

14751-534: The history of Byzantine music. However, those before the reign of Justinian I are virtually unknown; the monks Anthimos, Auxentios and Timokles are said to have written troparia , but only the text to a single one by Auxentios survives. The first major form was the kontakion , of which Romanos the Melodist was the foremost composer. In the late 7th century the kanōn overtook the kontakion in popularity; Andrew of Crete became its first significant composer, and

14900-461: The lack thereof, a society's music is influenced by all other aspects of its culture, including social and economic organization and experience, climate, and access to technology. Many cultures have coupled music with other art forms, such as the Chinese four arts and the medieval quadrivium . The emotions and ideas that music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and

15049-572: The largest such formations in traditional Japanese music . Modern scholars generally define ' Medieval music ' as the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages , from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. Music was certainly prominent in the Early Middle Ages , as attested by artistic depictions of instruments, writings about music, and other records; however, the only repertory of music which has survived from before 800 to

15198-727: The last two cover between them, the entire epic of Ramayana . The powerful Indian emperor Harsha (606–648) is credited with having written three plays: the comedy Ratnavali , Priyadarsika , and the Buddhist drama Nagananda . Many other dramatists followed during the Middle Ages . There were many performing art forms in the southern part of India, Kerala is such a state with different such art forms like Koodiyattam , Nangyarkoothu , Kathakali , Chakyar koothu , Thirayattam and there were many prominent artists like Painkulam Raman Chakyar and others. There are references to theatrical entertainments in China as early as 1500 BC during

15347-693: The late Middle Ages, the music of whom survives in the Codex Calixtinus ; and the English school, the music of which survives in the Worcester Fragments and the Old Hall Manuscript . Alongside these schools of sacred music a vibrant tradition of the secular song developed, as exemplified in the music of the troubadours , trouvères , and Minnesänger . Much of the later secular music of the early Renaissance evolved from

15496-488: The later IVC contains the earliest known depiction of an arched harp , dated sometime before 1800 BCE. Following the advent of writing , literate civilizations are termed part of the ancient world , the first of which is Sumerian literature of Abu Salabikh (now Southern Iraq) of c.  2600 BCE Though the music of Ancient societies was extremely diverse, some fundamental concepts arise prominently in virtually all of them, namely monophony , improvisation and

15645-467: The leading figures. Like their Western counterparts of the same period, Byzantine composers were primarily men. Kassia is a major exception to this; she was a prolific and important composer of sticheron hymns and the only woman whose works entered the Byzantine liturgy . A few other women are known to have been composers, Thekla, Theodosia, Martha and the daughter of John Kladas (her given name

15794-434: The method of making the puppets and the positioning of the rods on the puppets, as opposed to the type of play performed by the puppets. Both styles generally performed plays depicting great adventure and fantasy, rarely was this very stylized form of theatre used for political propaganda. Cantonese shadow puppets were the larger of the two. They were built using thick leather that created more substantial shadows. Symbolic color

15943-465: The middle generation of the Franco-Flemish school included Johannes Ockeghem , who wrote music in a contrapuntally complex style, with varied texture and an elaborate use of canonical devices; Jacob Obrecht , one of the most famous composers of masses in the last decades of the 15th century; and Josquin des Prez , probably the most famous composer in Europe before Palestrina , and who during

16092-590: The middle of the 13th century (until they were suppressed by the Church); and the period during and immediately following the Black Death , around 1350, when their activities were vividly recorded and well-documented with notated music. Their music mixed folk song styles with penitential or apocalyptic texts. The 14th century in European music history is dominated by the style of the ars nova , which by convention

16241-683: The middle of the 15th century, composers and singers from the Low Countries and adjacent areas began to spread across Europe, especially into Italy, where they were employed by the papal chapel and the aristocratic patrons of the arts (such as the Medici , the Este , and the Sforza families). They carried their style with them: smooth polyphony which could be adapted for sacred or secular use as appropriate. Principal forms of sacred musical composition at

16390-488: The middle of the 16th century, the international style began to break down, and several highly diverse stylistic trends became evident: a trend towards simplicity in sacred music, as directed by the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent , exemplified in the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; a trend towards complexity and chromaticism in the madrigal, which reached its extreme expression in

16539-551: The modern oboe and oud lute, the latter which became the pipa . Other preexisting instruments greatly increased in popularity, such as the qing , panpipes, and particularly the qin -zither (or guqin ), which was from then on the most revered instrument, associated with good character and morality. Greek written history extends far back into Ancient Greece , and was a major part of ancient Greek theatre . In ancient Greece, mixed-gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons. Instruments included

16688-596: The most important wind instrument, the double-reed aulos , as well as the plucked string instrument , the lyre , especially the special kind called a kithara . The principal sources on the music of ancient India are textual and iconographical; specifically, some theoretical treatises in Sanskrit survive, there are brief mentions in general literature and many sculptures of Ancient Indian musicians and their instruments exist. Ancient Sanskrit , Pali , and Prakrit literature frequently contains musical references, from

16837-504: The most prominent is that of the musician Ling Lun , who—on the orders of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi)—invented bamboo flute by imitating the song of the mythical fenghuang birds. In the broadest sense, prehistoric music —more commonly termed primitive music in the past —encompasses all music produced in preliterate cultures ( prehistory ), beginning at least 6 million years ago when humans and chimpanzees last had

16986-939: The most prominent theories are as follows: Many cultures have their own mythical origins on the creation of music. Specific figures are sometimes credited with inventing music, such as Jubal in Christian mythology , the legendary Shah Jamshid in Persian/Iranian mythology , the goddess Saraswati in Hinduism , and the muses in Ancient Greek mythology . Some cultures credit multiple originators of music; ancient Egyptian mythology associates it with numerous deities, including Amun , Hathor , Isis and Osiris , but especially Ihy . There are many stories relating to music's origins in Chinese mythology , but

17135-428: The natural world directly. The earliest instruments found in prehistoric China are 12 gudi bone flutes in the modern-day Jiahu , Wuyang , Henan Province from c.  6000 BCE. The only instruments dated to the prehistoric Xia dynasty ( c.  2070–1600 ) are two qing , two small bells (one earthenware , one bronze ), and a xun . Due to this extreme scarcity of surviving instruments and

17284-410: The necks to facilitate the use of multiple heads with one body. When the heads were not being used, they were stored in a muslin book or fabric lined box. The heads were always removed at night. This was in keeping with the old superstition that if left intact, the puppets would come to life at night. Some puppeteers went so far as to store the heads in one book and the bodies in another, to further reduce

17433-563: The new guitar. Germany cultivated polyphonic forms built on the Protestant chorales , which replaced the Roman Catholic Gregorian Chant as a basis for sacred music, and imported the style of the Venetian school (the appearance of which defined the start of the Baroque era there). In addition, Dutch and German composers, particularly Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , wrote enormous amounts of organ music, establishing

17582-521: The old church modes , a feature which was at first most obvious at cadential points in compositions, but gradually became pervasive. Music after 1600, beginning with the tonal music of the Baroque era, is often referred to as belonging to the common practice period . The Baroque era took place from 1600 to 1750, as the Baroque artistic style flourished across Europe and, during this time, music expanded in its range and complexity. Baroque music began when

17731-445: The oldest, c.  43,150–39,370 BP. Considering the relative complexity of flutes, it is likely earlier instruments existed, akin to objects that are common in later hunter and gatherer societies, such as rattles , shakers , and drums . The absence of other instruments from and before this time may be due to their use of weaker—and thus more biodegradable —materials, such as reeds, gourds, skins, and bark. A painting in

17880-680: The performance practices of Ancient Chinese musicians survive. The Five Classics of the Zhou dynasty include musical commentary; the I Ching and Chunqiu Spring and Autumn Annals make references, while the Liji Book of Rites contains a substantial discussion (see the chapter Yue Ji Record of Music ). While the Yue Jing Classic of Music is lost, the Shijing Classic of Poetry contains 160 texts to now lost songs from

18029-633: The period after 1100: the St. Martial school of organum, the music of which was often characterized by a swiftly moving part over a single sustained line; the Notre Dame school of polyphony, which included the composers Léonin and Pérotin , and which produced the first music for more than two parts around 1200; the musical melting-pot of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia , a pilgrimage destination and site where musicians from many traditions came together in

18178-517: The portrayal is to be done. Drama, as Bharata Muni says, is the imitation of men and their doings ( loka-vritti ). As men and their doings have to be respected on the stage, so drama in Sanskrit is also known by the term rupaka , which means portrayal.{{ }} The Ramayana and Mahabharata can be considered the first recognized plays that originated in India. These epics provided the inspiration to

18327-555: The possibility of reanimating puppets. Shadow puppetry is said to have reached its highest point of artistic development in the 11th century before becoming a tool of the government. In the Song dynasty , there were many popular plays involving acrobatics and music. These developed in the Yuan dynasty into a more sophisticated form with a four- or five-act structure. Yuan drama spread across China and diversified into numerous regional forms,

18476-481: The present day is the plainsong liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, the largest part of which is called Gregorian chant . Pope Gregory I , who gave his name to the musical repertory and may himself have been a composer, is usually claimed to be the originator of the musical portion of the liturgy in its present form, though the sources giving details on his contribution date from more than

18625-474: The prevalence of ritualism amongst Indo-Aryan tribes in which some members of the tribe acted as if they were wild animals, and some others were the hunters. Those who acted as mammals like goats, buffaloes, reindeer, monkeys, etc. were chased by those playing the role of hunters. Bharata Muni (fl. 5th–2nd century BC) was an ancient Indian writer best known for writing the Natya Shastra of Bharata ,

18774-513: The previously male-dominated art. Modern dance began in the late 19th century and early 20th century in response to the restrictions of traditional ballet. The arrival of Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes (1909–1929) revolutionized ballet and the performing arts generally throughout the Western world, most importantly through Diaghilev's emphasis on collaboration, which brought choreographers, dancers, set designers/artists, composers and musicians together to revitalize and revolutionize ballet. It

18923-632: The rapid spread of Islam in the 7th century, Islamic music dominated Persia and the Arab world, and the Islamic Golden Age saw the presence of numerous important music theorists. Music written for and by the early Christian Church properly inaugurates the Western classical music tradition, which continues into medieval music where polyphony , staff notation and nascent forms of many modern instruments developed. In addition to religion or

19072-546: The ruling government and El Filibusterismo (translations: The filibusterism; The Subversive or The Subversion, as in the Locsín English translation, are also possible translations, also known by its alternative English title The Reign of Greed) (1891). The novel's dark theme departs dramatically from the previous novel's hopeful and romantic atmosphere, signifying Ibarra's resort to solving his country's issues through violent means, after his previous attempt in reforming

19221-531: The spectacles of grand opera and then to the musical dramas of Giuseppe Verdi and the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) of the operas of Richard Wagner leading directly to the music of the 20th century. The 19th century was a period of growth for the performing arts for all social classes, technical advances such as the introduction of gaslight to theatres, burlesque , minstrel dancing, and variety theatre. In ballet, women make great progress in

19370-415: The state philosophy, and the ganying theories became a dominant philosophy. In practice, however, many officials ignored or downplayed Confucius's high regard for yayue over suyue music, preferring to engage in the more lively and informal later. By 7 BCE the Bureau employed 829 musicians; that year Emperor Ai either disbanded or downsized the department, due to financial limitations, and

19519-414: The storytellers and audience interacting and participating in call and response , which is characterized by a vocalist singing a phrase that is then echoed or responded to with a new phrase by the other performers and/or audience. This ancient tradition is rooted in many African cultures. The earliest recorded theatrical event dates back to 2000 BC with the ceremonial plays of Ancient Egypt . The story of

19668-942: The street. Live performances before an audience are a form of entertainment. The development of audio and video recording has allowed for private consumption of the performing arts. The performing arts often aims to express one's emotions and feelings. Artists who participate in performing arts in front of an audience are called performers. Examples of these include actors , comedians , dancers , magicians , circus artists, musicians , and singers . Performing arts are also supported by workers in related fields, such as songwriting , choreography and stagecraft . Performers often adapt their appearance , such as with costumes and stage makeup , stage lighting , and sound. Performing arts may include dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic , illusion , mime , spoken word , puppetry , circus arts , stand-up comedy , improv , professional wrestling and performance art . There

19817-404: The subject. In dance, the connection between the two concepts is stronger than in some other arts, and neither can exist without the other. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who practices this art is called a choreographer. Music is an art form which combines pitch , rhythm, and dynamic to create sound. It can be performed using a variety of instruments and styles and

19966-570: The teachers. The first vice chancellor of kerala kalamandalam was K G Paulose (2007) and the last chairman of Kerala Kalamandalam was O.N.V.Kurup . Present vice chancellor is M V Narayanan. The following is a list of Chairpersons/Vice chancellors of Kerala kalamandalam. The Government of India , on the advice of the University Grants Commission declared Keralakalamandalam as deemed University as per order No. F9 -11/99 U3 dated 14-03-2006. The Government of Kerala approved

20115-473: The texts were closely aligned with music, and though the oldest extant musical notation survives from this period, many texts survive without their accompanying music, such as the Rigveda and the Shijing Classic of Poetry . The eventual emergence of the Silk Road and increasing contact between cultures led to the transmission and exchange of musical ideas, practices, and instruments. Such interaction led to

20264-455: The time were the mass , the motet , and the laude ; secular forms included the chanson , the frottola , and later the madrigal . The invention of printing had an immense influence on the dissemination of musical styles, and along with the movement of the Franco-Flemish musicians, contributed to the establishment of the first truly international style in European music since the unification of Gregorian chant under Charlemagne. Composers of

20413-497: The traditional orchestra called Panchavadyam . Training is also given in various percussion instruments like chenda , maddalam and mizhavu . Kalamandalam follows the gurukula sampradayam, the ancient Indian education system based on residential tutelage. Kalamandalam was conceived to provide training to its students in the Gurukula Sampradaya, an ancient tradition of residential schooling where students stayed with

20562-672: The trumpet suggests that the Elamites used them for hunting. In many ways the earliest known musical cultures of Iran are strongly connected with those of Mesopotamia. Ancient arched harps ( c.  3000 ) also exist in the latter and the scarcity of instruments makes it unclear as to which culture the harp originated. Far more bull lyres survive in Ur of Mesopotamia, notably the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur , though they are nearly identical to their contemporary Elamite counterparts. From

20711-420: The twentieth century, storytelling was the most recognized form of entertainment, although today, some forms still remain. One form, Naghali, was traditionally performed in coffeehouses where the storytellers, or Naghals (Naqqāls), only recited sections of a story at a time, thus retaining regular cliental. These stories were based on events of historical or religious importance and many referenced poetries from

20860-817: The well known Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (after 433 BCE) contains a variety of complex and decorated instruments. Of the tomb, the by-far most notable instrument is the monumental set of 65 tuned bianzhong bells , which range five octaves requiring at least five players; they are still playable and include rare inscriptions on music. Ancient Chinese instruments served both practical and ceremonial means. People used them to appeal to supernatural forces for survival needs, while pan flutes may have been used to attract birds while hunting, and drums were common in sacrifices and military ceremonies. Chinese music has always been closely associated with dance, literature and fine arts; many early Chinese thinkers also equated music with proper morality and governance of society. Throughout

21009-619: The word gagaku derives from the Chinese yayue music, the latter originally referred to Confucian ritual music, while gagaku extends to many genres, styles and instruments. In the tradition's early history, the three main genres were wagaku (native Japanese music), sankangaku (music from the Three Kingdoms of Korea ) and tōgaku (music from China's Tang dynasty ), as well as more minor genres such as toragaku , gigaku , and rin’yūgaku . Uniquely among Asian music of this time, there are numerous extant scores of gagaku music from

21158-438: Was also very prevalent; a black face represented honesty, a red one bravery. The rods used to control Cantonese puppets were attached perpendicular to the puppets' heads. Thus, they were not seen by the audience when the shadow was created. Pekingese puppets were more delicate and smaller. They were created out of thin, translucent leather usually taken from the belly of a donkey. They were painted with vibrant paints, thus they cast

21307-494: Was considered excessive or lascivious. During the Warring States Period when of Confucius's lifetime, officials often ignored this distinction, preferring more lively suyue music and using the older yayue traditional solely for political means. Confucius and disciples such as Mencius considered this preference virtueless and saw ill of the leaders' ignorance of ganying , a theory that held music

21456-541: Was evidently used in ceremonies and celebrations; a Parthian-era stone frieze in Hatra shows a wedding where musicians are included, playing trumpets, tambourines, and a variety of flutes. Other textual and iconographical evidence indicates the continued prominence of gōsān minstrels. However, like the Achaemenid period, Greek writers continue to be a major source for information on Parthian music. Strabo recorded that

21605-523: Was inaugurated in November 1930 at Kakkad house in Kunnamkulam , and was, six months later shifted to Ambalapuram near Mulakunnathukavu before eventually moved onto the village of Cheruthuruthy , just south of Shoranur , in 1936. The Maharaja of Cochin donated the land and a building. Subsequently, a dance department was started to revive Mohiniyattom. Kerala Kalamandalam has been functioning as

21754-500: Was inspired by a story in the Mahabharata and is the most famous. It was the first to be translated into English and German. In comparison to Bhāsa, who drew heavily from the epics, Kālidāsa can be considered an original playwright. The next great Indian dramatist was Bhavabhuti (c. 7th century). He is said to have written the following three plays: Malati-Madhava , Mahaviracharita and Uttar Ramacharita . Among these three,

21903-404: Was intrinsically connected to the universe. Thus, many aspects of Ancient Chinese music were aligned with cosmology: the 12 pitch shí-èr-lǜ system corresponded equally with certain weights and measurements; the pentatonic scale with the five wuxing ; and the eight tone classification of Chinese instruments of bayin with the eight symbols of bagua . No actual music or texts on

22052-528: Was outside of the elite. The rock reliefs of Kul-e Farah show that sophisticated Persian court ensembles emerged in the 1st-century BCE, in the which the central instrument was the arched harp. The prominence of musicians in these certain rock reliefs suggests they were essential in religious ceremonies. Like earlier periods, extremely little contemporary information on the music of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE) exists. Most knowledge on

22201-422: Was prominent, it was not strict and the tōgaku and komagaku styles nonetheless interlaced and influenced each other. The long Heian period (794–1185) saw much patronage of gagaku music from the court, as it accompanied many festivals and celebrations. Numerous new genres emerged at this time, such as the saibara and rōei song forms. Gagaku ensembles consist of a wide variety of instruments and are

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