Amir Khusrau


 
 
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Amir Khusrau

Amir Khusrau, the most famous musician of the Delhi Sultanate period, fused Hindustani music with Persian and Turkish music to create new style like Qawwali and the Khayal. He is also believed to have invented the table and the sitar.

  • Tansen (1506-1586 CE), one of the Navaratnas of Akbar’s court, is considered one of the greatest composers and musicians in Hindustani classical music.He invented several new ragas, like Darbari, Malhar, Deepak, Mand and Todi. It is said that Tansen could bring rain with his Raag Malhar and start fires with his singing of Raag Deepak. Several schools of music or gharanas developed in the different regions.
  • In Gwalior, Swami Haridas, Tansen’s guru, was part of Raja Mansingh Tomar’s (1486-1516 CE) court. He specialized in the dhrupad style of singing. Distinct style of music also developed in Lucknow, Benares and Patiala. The Bhakti and sufi saints introduced another form of devotional music called the Kirtan.
  • Surdas, Chaitanya and Meerabai poured out their devotion to god through their Kirtans. In the south, the Carnatic school of music flourished during the rule of the Vijayanagar Empire. Purandara Dasa was also known as the sangeeta pitamah of Carnatic music. He laid out the basic rules for teaching Carnatic music.
  • Dance: The earlier from of dance was way of telling stories, especially from mythology and the epics, and was normally held in temples.
  • When rulers began to patronize the dancers, dance performances moved out the temples to the royal courts. Bharatanatyam evolved in Tamil Nadu, Kuchipudi in Andhra Pradesh, Odissi in Odisha, Kathakali in Kerala, Manipuri in Manipur, and Kathak in North India.
  • Abu'l Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau, better known as Amir Khusrau Dehlavi, was an Indian Sufi singer, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate . He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. He was a mystic and a spritiual discipline of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi, India . He wrote poetry primarily in persian, but also in Hindavi. A vocabulary in verse, the Khaliq Bari, containing Arabic, persian and Hindavi terms is often attrbuted to him. Khusrau is sometimes referred to as the "voice of india" or "Parrot of india" and has been called the "father  of Urdu literature".

     

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