Why compositions are the soul of Carnatic music?

Why compositions are the soul of Carnatic music?

| Photo Credit: Illustration by Keshav. If you imagine a Carnatic performance as a piece of ornamental jewellery, then the individual stones and links are the myriad compositions that the vaggeyakaras have painstakingly created. The artistes’ creation (manodharma) forms the design that makes up the ornament. This distinctive combination, therefore, places equal, if not more, […]

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