Volume : VI, Issue : XII, December - 2017

ANTIQUITY OF ODISSI MUSIC: AN OVERVIEW

Niladri Kalyan Das

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 Odissi music is a separate system of Indian classical music and is having all the essential as well as potential ingredients of Indian Classical form. The existing dance and musical tradition of Odisha is the cumulative experience of the last two thousand and five hundred years and can oadly be grouped under various varieties. The figures of dancers and musicians carved on ancient temple walls speak of Odisha’s rich musical heritage. Since, there is the dearth of recorded evidence to prove the exact time of the advent of the earliest form of the Indian Classical Music into this land inflow during the period of Aryanisation of this land. There are historical evidences in the form of sculptural evidences, i.e. musical instruments, singing and dancing postures of damsels in the Ranigumpha Cave in Khandagiri and Udayagiri, Charya Geetika written between 7th to 12th centuries mostly by the poets of Odisha. 

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NILADRI KALYAN DAS, ANTIQUITY OF ODISSI MUSIC: AN OVERVIEW, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-12, DECEMBER-2017

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