Dance is a very important part of life in Nagaland. Except among the Zeliang, only men dance, and it is always in groups.
Nagaland has also produced several long-running modern bands, such as The Great Society, rock bands Phynyx and Squadron and the 4th NAP Jazz Band, the official band of the Battalion Nagaland Armed Police, and the bluesy traditional singer Rewben Mashangwa.
Music, not being tied to any one language, expresses the feelings of the characters even to people who can't follow the dialogue.
Naushad and Khaiyyam were noteworthy music directors of the 1940s and 1950s, writing scores redolent of the elegance of Northern India's Moghul and Rajput courts.
Because popular music directors score a great many films over the course of a year, there is always a tendency to cut corners and speed production by plagiarizing.
In Carnaticmusic, the sampurna ragas (the ones that have seven notes in their scales) are classified into the melakarta system, which groups them according to the kinds of notes that they have.
Written notation of Carnaticmusic was revived in the late 17th century and early 18th century, which coincided with rule of Shahaji II in Tanjore.
Muthuswami Dikshitar, Thyagaraja and Syama Sastri —the trinity of Carnaticmusic
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