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Sri Lankan Music Instrument & Sounds
The five kinds of instruments being those instruments played by the bare hand such as drums, Instruments played by hand held sticks such as "Thammettama", Instruments played by bare hands and sticks such as "Dawla", Instruments such as bells, Instruments played by blowing wind such as flutes, thumphet (eastern), etc.
The definitions for these types of instruments vary from the definitions of Indian music, as Sri Lankan instrumentalists have their own definitions brought forward from generation to generation.
Sri Lankan Music History
Our ancestors developed art & sound from nature. This is why cave paintings showed animals and the environment. Music started from imitating the sounds of birds & other wild animals.
The North Indian Music notes of Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Da & Ni were supposed to be the imitations of the sounds of Peacock, Cow, Goat, Tern, Kowula, Horse & Elephant.
Music was not only used for entertainment. They got it involved in their day to day life as well. For example, still ‘Pal Kavi’ a form of Folk poetry used in rural arrears when guarding a farmer’s crops.
Sri Lanka Music
Music of Sri Lanka can be divided in to seven categories as seen today.
1) Traditional folk music of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka had traditional folk music from the beginning of its race, which has been enjoyed and developed under the Buddhist environment.They were used by the ordinary people.
2) Local drama music (Kolam/Nadagam/Noorthy)
Kolam music based on law country tunes and it is not a developed form of music, as tunes were not developed. Limited to very few notes about 3~4 and used by the ordinary people for pleasure and entertainments.
Nadagam music is more developed form of drama influenced from South Indian street drama which was introduced by some South Indian Artists.Phillippu Singho from Negombo in 1824 Performed Harishchandra Nadagama in Hnguranketha which was originally written in Telingu language. Later Maname Sanda kinduru and few others were introduced.
C. Don Bastian of Dehiwala introduced Noorthy firstly by looking at Indian dramas and then John De Silva developed it and did Ramayanaya in 1886.
3) Hindustani classical music (Ragadari Music)
Ravindranath Tagor visited Sri Lanka with a group in 1934 and performed a drama and laid the foundation stone for Sri Pali at Horana and later introduced music, Art and Dancing. His visit to Sri Lanka made a big change and the awareness in the music scene and lot of Sri Lankan started visiting India for higher education.
4) South Indian classical music (Karnataka Music)
This type of Music can be seen in South India and northern part of Sri Lanka and used by the Tamil community.
5) Tamil and Hindustani Film music
Sri Lanka did not produced films and had to export from India during the early periods. Music for films such as Kadawunu Poronduwa, Varadunu Kurumanama, and Angulimala and others too copied from Indian film songs. Rekhawa produced Sir Lester James Peiris was the first Sri Lankan film produced using Sri Lankan music.
6) Western classical music
British wanted to introduce western music to Sri Lanka during their period of rule from 1815.It was a success and soon Sri Lankan were able to learn the piano as it was not that difficult to learn as Indian music.
7) Sinhala light music
Some artist visited India to learn music and later stared introducing light music.Ananda Samarakone was the pioneer of this attempt and and He composed National Anthem too. Then Sunil Santha who also did not stick to Hindustani music introduced light music of his own. Please visit http://www.info.lk/music to listen few of them online.
Nowadays this is the most popular type of music in Sri Lanka and enriched with the influence of folk music, kolam music, Nadagam music, Noorthy music, Film music, Classical music, Western music and others too. Most of the musician in Sri lanka have come out with their own creations and become success in this category of music.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Chandrasena Hettiarachchi
Tika Kalaka Sitan
Amma
Etha Etha Chandramandale
Etha Pawi Giyawe
Kelesaka Kiwath
Pandith Amaradeva - the maestro in Sinhala Music
Music of Sri Lanka
The music of Sri Lanka originates in cultural traditions deriving from three influences: the religious practices of Buddhism, the aftereffects of Portuguese colonization, and the commercial and historical influence of Indian culture - specifically, Bollywood cinema. The Theravada sect of Buddhism has influenced Sri Lankan Music since Buddhism arrived in Sri Lanka two millennia ago.
Portuguese colonizers arrived centuries after the Buddha, in the mid 1400s, bringing with them cantiga ballads, ukuleles and guitars; as well as African slaves (referred to, historically, as kaffrinhas), who brought with them a style of music now referred to as baila. The people of these two regions, and the musical traditions they brought with them, served to contribute further to the diverse musical roots of modern Sri Lankan music.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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