Question 15
HardOriginal questionWhich three composers are known as the Trinity of Carnatic music?
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CorrectNot quiteAnswer D
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri are the Carnatic Trinity.
All three lived around the same time, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and much of the standard concert repertoire is theirs.
Purandara Dasa is revered as the father of Carnatic music, but he came earlier and is not one of the three.
Worth noting
Tansen, Baiju Bawra and Amir Khusrau all belong to the Hindustani tradition, which has no comparable 'trinity'.
- Concept
- The Trinity of Carnatic music
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