Toshali Sands :: 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 the words of those lyric were musical to start with.

II addition, he indicated the classic ragas prevailing at the time in which these were to be sung. Prior to the there was the tradition of Chhand which were simple in musical outline From the 16th century onwards treatises on music were Sangitarnava, Chandrika, Prakasha, Sangita Kalpalata &Natya Manorama. Two treatis namely, Sangita Sarani and Sangi Narayan were also written in the early 19th century Odissi Sangita is a four classes of music dhrupada, chitrapada, chitrake and panchal, described in the above mentioned texts. The chief Odissi ragas are Bara Kalyana, Nata, Shree Gow are Darnq Panchama, Dhanashree.