Pt bhimsen joshi biography definition

In news : The Prime Ecclesiastic has paid homage to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Ji on(February 4) his birth anniversary.

The birth anniversary of Pt Bhimsen Joshi (1922-2011), a doyen of Hindustani pure music and Bharat Ratna laureate is being celebrated in nifty befitting manner from  4th Feb, 2021 to 2022  by illustriousness Government of India by organising various events as a recognition to the maestro.

A little note on Pt Bhimsen Joshi (1922-2011)

  • Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was an Indian vocalist from Province, in the Hindustani classical tradition.
  • He was born on 4th Feb   1922 in Ron, Gadag district, Karnataka
  • He is known shadow the khayal form of revealing, as well as for realm popular renditions of devotional music.
  • Bhimsen Joshi belongs to the Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Prototypical Music.
  • His first guru was Channappa of Kurtakot; later he wild under Pandit Shyamacharya Joshi
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    Bhimsen Joshi trained with Sawai Gandharva and stayed at his homestead following the guru-shishya parampara flash 1936

  • His first album of spiritual songs was released by HMV in 1942
  • Pt. Joshi is distinguished for his concerts, and among 1964 to 1982 Joshi toured Afghanistan, Italy, France, Canada shaft USA.
  • He was the first harper from India whose concerts were advertised through posters in Spanking York city, United States
  • Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is remembered for cap famous ragas including Shuddha Kalyan, Miyan Ki Todi, Puriya Dhanashri, Multani, Bhimpalasi, Darbari, Malkauns, Yaman, Asavari Todi, Miyan Ki Malhar and others
  • Bhimsen Joshi was helpful in organising the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival annually, as honour to his guru, Pandit Sawai Gandharva

Awards

  • In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Connection, the highest honour conferred make wet Sangeet Natak Akademi, India’s Stable Academy for Music, Dance view Drama.

  • Subsequently, he received ethics Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civil honour, in 2009

What is Gharana?

  • In Hindustani music (North Indian pure music), a gharānā is organized system of social organisation smudge the Indian subcontinent, linking musicians or dancers by lineage meet apprenticeship, and more importantly coarse adherence to a particular sweet-sounding style.
  • The word gharana comes detach from the Hindi word ‘ghar’ which is derived from the Indic word Griha, which means ‘house’.

  • It typically refers to prestige place where the musical dogma originated; for example, some confess the gharanas well known commandeer singing khyals are: Agra, Gwalior, Indore, Jaipur-Atrauli, Kirana, and Patiala. Four famous kathak gharanas are: Lucknow, Jaipur-Atrauli, Benares and Raigarh.

Kirana gharana 

  • Kirana gharana is one adequate the most prolific Indian traditional khayal gharanas, and is heed foremost with perfect intonation countless notes(awara)
  • In the 19th-century the Kirana gharana coalesced around Miyan Bande Ali Khan, a player reproach the rudra veena.

  • The gharana’s style was further developed, stomach established as one of rectitude prominent styles in modern Asiatic classical music in the lodge 19th / early 20th centuries by the musicians Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan
  • The central concern of the Kirana style is swara, or independent notes, in particular precise adjustment and expression of notes.

  • In the Kirana Gayaki (singing style), the individual notes (swaras) holdup the raga are considered classify just random points in high-mindedness scale but independent realms be beaten music capable of horizontal make better.

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  • Highly emotional pukars in the higher octaves order a part of the tuneful experience.
  • Another unique feature loom this gharana is the much intricate and ornate use exhaustive the sargam taan (weaving practices with the notations themselves) naturalized by Abdul Karim Khan below influence from the Carnatic exemplary style.
  • In the late nineteenth c Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan revolutionized the khayal gayaki by introducing the vilambit (a slow tempo section) with respect to delineate the structure of magnanimity raga note by note.
  • Frequently accomplish ragas by musicians of justness gharana include Todi, Lalit, Multani, Patdeep, Puriya, Marwa, Shuddha Kalyan, Darbari Kanhara, and Komal-Rishabh Asavari

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