Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar: The Trailblazer
Krithikaa Srinivasan, Riyaz
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- Type
- blog
- Level
- beginner
- Language
- en
- Cost
- free
- Topics
- performers, concert-format
What it is
A blog profile of Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (born 1890) calling him the architect of the present concert format: a varnam, a few brisk kritis, a ragam-tanam-pallavi of about half an hour, lighter pieces and a closing tillana.
Why it is useful here
Spells out what he is credited with changing, which Wikipedia does not.
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