Odissi Music
Odissi Music: Odissi Music is a classical form consisting of all the necessary ingredients common to Hindustani and Carnatic Music, such as raga and tala. Jaydev was the first Oriya poet who composed lyrics meant to be sung and thus t~e words of those lyrii were musIcal to start with.
II addition, he indicated the classie! ragas prevailing at the time in which these were to be ~~ng. Prior to the there was the tradItIon of Chhandj which were simple in musical outli~~ Fro~ the 16th centur~ onwari treatIses on musIc weri Sangitarnava, Chandrika, Prakasha, Sangita Kalpalata a& Natya Manorama. Two treatis namely, Sangita Sarani and Sangi Narayan were also written in the arly 19th century Odissi Sangita is a four classes of music dhrupada, chitrapada, chitrake and panchal, described in the aboreI mentioned texts. The chief Odissi ragas a Bara Kalyana, Nata, Shree Gow are Darnq Panchama, Dhanashree,
