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Discover amazing facts about the violin at a talk at the British Council
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HOW MUCH do you know about the violin? Are you aware that the instrument that so integral to a Carnatic music concert was unknown before the arrival of the British? There are more amazing nuggets of information too — there are at least three ragas that owe their existence to the band music of the British army; two of the Carnatic Music Trinity, Tyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar, composed songs influenced by British tunes; Tyagaraja even used two English words in two of his songs; there are songs in Carnatic music in praise of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V and Annie Besant, not to forget Colonel Munroe whose statue stands outside the Gymkhana Club; scholars such as Fox Strangways, Margaret Cousins, H.A. Popley and captain C. R. Day were all passionately fond of Carnatic music and wrote books about it; the first resolution to form a Music Academy in Madras had two British signatories to it.
You can learn such astonishing facts about the violin on March 30, 6.30 p.m. at the Lecture Hall, British Council, 737, Anna Salai, in a talk by V. Sriram, an exponent of Carnatic music.
The March 30 talk "Carnatic Music and the Raj" has been organised by the Association of British Scholars, Chennai.
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