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::::::: Carnatic Music :::::::: (476 words) |
 | Music can thus be defined as an art form that arranges sounds in a fashion that follows certain natural principles and provides that special inner feeling of happiness and contentment. |
 | Carnatic music owes its vitality not to those who seek to change its face but to those who love it and nourish its spirit by harnessing their creativity to exploration of the beauty found in its tradition. |
 | Thus the men who made history in Carnatic music were not radicalists but super musicians who were identified with its timeless glory and rasa and found fulfillment in continuing the traditional stream of excellence. |
| Music at Yale (700 words) |
 | The Yale School of Music is one of the nation's oldest and most selective institutions for the graduate-level training of performers and composers. |
 | At the graduate level, it is one of the premiere academic music departments in the world, in the number and quality of its distinguished graduates in musicology and music theory, in its selectivity, and in the prominence of its faculty. |
 | Yale's oldest musical organization and principal undergraduate chorus, the Glee Club is an 80-voice ensemble of women and men performing a broad spectrum of great choral music, from choral orchestral masterpieces to newly commissioned works, and from world folk music to traditional Yale songs. |