McMuthuswamy

Born in 1786, Baluswami Dikshitar was the lesser known brother of the musical giant Muttuswamy Dikshitar. Muttuswamy is widely considered to be a part of the trinity of musicians who in the 18th century changed the face of Carnatic classical music. While Baluswami was not as well known, his quintessential contribution to Carnatic classical music changed the way it sounded forever. He is thought to have introduced violin into Carnatic classical music, standardized its modes of fiddling to suit the Carnatic palette of sounds and began playing the violin sitting down. Much less known is the fact that Muttuswamy Dikshitar is said to have heard Irish music played by the British troops stationed at the erstwhile Fort St George(Madras) and is said to have composed Sanskrit devotional hymns on those tunes. These hymns are popularly known as nottuswara sahityam and are popular to this day as a means of introducing children to Carnatic classical music. Perhaps Muthuswamy today would have been criticized for "diluting the purity of our music in the name of fusion", but parochial cynicism aside sample some of the Nottuswara Hymns with their Irish cousins
1)Vande Meenakshi

http://youtu.be/B5r9Biejz9M


Rakes of Mallow

http://youtu.be/Z1AN9ccoF-Y

2)This has to be the heights
Santatham Pahimam


God save our queen
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