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It has been mentioned in Sangeet Ratnakar, Gitang vadyang tatha nrityang trayang sangeetmuchyate.
In other words ,sangeet is the culmination or combination of Vocal music, Instrumental music and Dance.
In reality it can be said that geet, vadya and nritya are 3 art forms and those art forms taken together is defined as sangeet
In some ancient texts,it has been mentioned that among the 3 art forms, geet is the best form of art.Moreover, it can be mentioned that if we look at the term sangeet from the epistemological point of view, it seems that the term sang means best or high quality and geet means singing. So both of them taken together means high quality singing is sangeet.
But there are lot of controversies regarding the proper definition of Sangeet. But so far Sangeet Ratnakars definition of Sangeet is widely accepted.
Enjoy reading,
Suvalakshmi Roychowdhury.
Comments (2)
Ajey Gotkhindikar said
at 11:07 pm on Mar 9, 2009
Namaste Suvalakshmi, very nice flow of information. How to locate this particular page on Saptakam. - Ajey
suvalakshmi roychowdhury said
at 7:01 pm on Mar 10, 2009
Namaste Ajey,
thanks for the comments.I forgot to save it yesterday.I am writing all under Learning Indian Music.-Suvalakshmi.
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