International audienceIt is generally considered that early musical practices, developed by bards and employed by poets, were integral to the rituals of the ancient Tamils (THANINAYAGAM 1956: 109). The Tolkappiyam, the ancient Tamil grammatical treatise, while classifying forms of Tamil poetic conventions, discusses a set of forms called vannams, which could be understood as musical formulae followed by the bards..
The historic period of Tamil Nadu started with the Sangam age. Education in the arts is an integral ...
In writing a history of the Tamil Grammatical Tradition, one must try to make explicit the genesis, ...
Tamil literature is an ancient literature. It is also known as Cankam literature and classified as c...
From the earliest days of the Tamil music tradition, music was considered to be a combination of voc...
The classical tradition of the Tamils can be identified through Sangam literature and “Tholkappiyam”...
Tholkappiyam is the first text in Tamil that proves Tamil is a classical language. This text is writ...
Sangam Tamil consists of three major parts viz., Poetry, Music, and Drama. This is something that no...
Parai mēlam (a double-headed cylindrical drum played with two sticks) music occupies a significant ...
"TAMIL", which its present users like to describe as simultaneously "living AND classical", is the c...
Abstract The eighth and tenth Sangam literatures are the classic literatures that tell the life eth...
This dissertation looks at debates over the Tamil literary tradition in treatises and commentaries o...
Chelvanayakam, V. (1966). 'Tradition in early Tamil poetry,' University of Ceylon Review 24, nos. 1&...
Each ethnic group living in a world of cultural design shapes their musical traditions according to ...
Dvādaśa is an iconographical concept adumbrated in the Ahirbhudhnya-saṃhitā of the Pāñcarātrāgama. T...
Temple inscriptions and sculptures bear testimony to what the Tamil music tradition would have been ...
The historic period of Tamil Nadu started with the Sangam age. Education in the arts is an integral ...
In writing a history of the Tamil Grammatical Tradition, one must try to make explicit the genesis, ...
Tamil literature is an ancient literature. It is also known as Cankam literature and classified as c...
From the earliest days of the Tamil music tradition, music was considered to be a combination of voc...
The classical tradition of the Tamils can be identified through Sangam literature and “Tholkappiyam”...
Tholkappiyam is the first text in Tamil that proves Tamil is a classical language. This text is writ...
Sangam Tamil consists of three major parts viz., Poetry, Music, and Drama. This is something that no...
Parai mēlam (a double-headed cylindrical drum played with two sticks) music occupies a significant ...
"TAMIL", which its present users like to describe as simultaneously "living AND classical", is the c...
Abstract The eighth and tenth Sangam literatures are the classic literatures that tell the life eth...
This dissertation looks at debates over the Tamil literary tradition in treatises and commentaries o...
Chelvanayakam, V. (1966). 'Tradition in early Tamil poetry,' University of Ceylon Review 24, nos. 1&...
Each ethnic group living in a world of cultural design shapes their musical traditions according to ...
Dvādaśa is an iconographical concept adumbrated in the Ahirbhudhnya-saṃhitā of the Pāñcarātrāgama. T...
Temple inscriptions and sculptures bear testimony to what the Tamil music tradition would have been ...
The historic period of Tamil Nadu started with the Sangam age. Education in the arts is an integral ...
In writing a history of the Tamil Grammatical Tradition, one must try to make explicit the genesis, ...
Tamil literature is an ancient literature. It is also known as Cankam literature and classified as c...