Rāmprasād Sen#Ramprasad
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#Ramprasad
Rāmprasād Sen · c. 1718 – 1775 by tradition
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Who this is
Carnatic (South Indian classical) music — composer, singer, saint of the Rāma-bhakti tradition; centre of the "Trinity" that gave the music its modern form.
“A Telugu Brahmin in a Tamil river town chose a begging bowl over a king's gold, answered the king with a song asking whether wealth ever made anybody happy — and left South Indian classical music the shape it still has.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“A song can be a spiritual discipline and a piece of engineering at once. Tyāgarāja perfected the kṛti — the compact, three-part devotional song that is still the load-bearing unit of every Carnatic concert — and filled some seven hundred of them with one lifelong conversation with Rāma.”
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