GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA

UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF VOCATIOAL

STUDIES
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
FIRST YEAR
SESSION [2020-2022]

ENROLMENT NUMBER-07113902120
SAMEEHA YAHYA
CLASSICAL MUSIC
AND
FOLK DANCES
Performing Arts in Education
 The performing arts in education play a significant role in
helping children develop their creative skills and overall
personality.
 Performing arts being an integral part of education provide
students with the opportunity to engage the mind, the body,
and emotions.
 Students can explore and express great themes and ideas
through their performance. This allows children to develop
their self- confidence and self- belief. With improved self –
confidence and self- belief children go on mastering many
more skills that will equip them for life.
 Educationists have realized its direst need and hence, are
emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence,
developing creative minds, fostering personalities and
imagination as children mark their journey through school, to
become happy and well- rounded individuals.
Classical Music
 Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the
traditions of Western culture, including
both liturgical (religious) and secular music. Indian classical
music has two major traditions:
 The North Indian classical music tradition is called 
Hindustani, while the South Indian expression is
called Carnatic.
 The roots of the classical music of India are found in
the Vedic literature of Hinduism and the ancient Natyashastra,
the classic Sanskrit text on performance arts by Bharata Muni.
The 13th century Sanskrit text Sangita-
Ratnakara of Sarangadeva is regarded as the definitive text by
both the Hindustani music and the Carnatic music traditions.
Indian classical music is generally passed
down in an oral tradition where the student
would spend many years with their ‘guru’,
developing a very special, spiritual bond,
imbibing all aspects of the music along with
philosophical and moral principles that
shape them for life.
Style and types of Indian Classic
Music
Some styles of Indian music are associated with a specific
faith. Bhajans and kirtis, for example, are Hindu devotional
songs; and qawali  is a form rooted in Sufi Islam.
 HINDUSTANI MUSIC - Hindustani Music is the term used
to describe the music of northern India. Influenced by music
from Persia and Central Asia, it also refers to vocal styles
mentioned below: Dhrupad, Khyal, Dadra and Thumri. Music
from southern India. features shorter pieces without the long,
slow tempo phases. Even though it is less well known in the
West it arguably is more accessible to Western ears.
 KARNATAK - Karnatak  is the classical music of southern
India. It is similar to Hindustani classical music except it is
freer and has a more positive and upbeat mood that reflects a
lack of influence of music from Persia and Central Asia.

 DHRUPAD - Dhrupad is the most austere form of classical

singing and playing. Closely connected to the famous Mughal
singer Tansen, it is a northern Indian style that features a
straight delivery and no embroidery or embellishment. Singers
are accompanied by a tanpura and pakhawaj barrel drum.
 KHAYAL and THUMRI - Kayla  is a form of classical
singing that is less austere and more popular today
than Dhrupad.  Khayals are fixtures of Hindustani light
classical piece  Thurman is another fixture of Hindustani light
classical music. Thurman is primarily a vocal style of romance
music written from the perspective of the woman and sung in a
literary dialect of Hindi called Braj Bhasha.

 HINDU DEVOTIONAL MUSIC -  Bhajans are forms of

devotional songs that are especially popular in northern India.
They often honor a particular deity or recall an episode from
Hindu mythology. Pilgrims chant them at festivals and along
the banks of the Ganges. 
 GHAZAL - A ghazal is a light style of classical Persian love
music adored by the Mughals. Originally more of a poetic than
musical form, the name is derived from an Arabic word
meaning "to talk amorously to women." 
 QAWWALI - Qawwali refers to a performance and singer as
well as a kind of music. At a traditional show, the audiences is
made up of exclusively men in accordance with Sufi traditions.
Qawwali has traditionally been performed at a mahfil.
Folk music of India
 Indian folk music is diverse because of India's vast cultural
diversity. It is sung in various languages and dialects
throughout the length and breath of this vast nation and
exported to different parts of the world owing to migration.
The most well known styles come from Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan, the Punjab and Bengal. Folk music is often
called Desi. 
 Bengal has a rich tradition of religious folk music, especially
associated with Sufism among Muslims and with the
devotional worship of Krishna and the goddess Kali among
Hindus. Dogri love songs from the Jammu hills and chants
from Uttar Pradesh have done well on the World Music charts.
It has traditionally been associated with events from everyday
life and is often performed at festival and life-cycle events such
as marriages and births. It is much more festive, celebratory,
for-the-moment and fun than Indian classical music.
SINGERS
Folk Dance
A folk dance is a dance developed
by people that reflect the life of
the people of a certain country or
region.  Indian folk and tribal
dances are simple and are
performed to express joy during
arrival of seasons, birth of a
child, wedding and festivals.
Some Folk Dances of India
 Bihu - The Bihu dance is an
indigenous folk dance from
the Indian state of Assam related
to the Bihu festival and an
important part of Assamese
culture.

 Fugdi –Fugdi is a Maharashtra

and Goa folk dance performed by
the women in the Konkan region
during Hindu religious festivals
like Ganesh
Chaturthi and Vrata or towards
the end of other dances like Dhalo.
 Oppana – Oppana is a popular form of social entertainment
among the Muslims community of Kerala, South India,
prevalent throughout Kerala, especially in Malappuram.

 Dumhal - Dumhal is a dance performed in the Indian

territory of Kashmir by the Watal tribe.

 Goti pua - The goti puas are boy dancers who dress up like
girls.
 Garba - Garba is a form
of dance which originates from
the state of Gujarat in India.

 Bhangra - The dance known

as Bhangra is one of Punjab's
most popular dance form and
the name of the music style.

 Jumar - Jhumar is an Indian

folk dance from the Indian
states of Bihar, Jharkhand,
Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West
Bengal. It is performed during
the harvest season and festival.
 Classical dances
Indian classical dance or 'Shastriya Devesh' is an umbrella
term for various performance arts rooted in
religious Hindu musical theatre styles , whose theory
and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya
Shastra .
FORMS OF CLASSICAL DANCES

Bharatantyam - Bharatanatyam, also

previously called Sadhir Attam, is a major
form of Indian classical dance that originated
in Tamil Nadu. Bharatanatyam is one of the
oldest classical dance traditions in India

Katak - The origin of Kathak is traditionally

attributed to the traveling bards of
ancient northern India known as Kathakars
or storytellers. Kathak is found in three
distinct forms, called "gharanas", named
after the cities where the Kathak dance
tradition evolved - Jaipur, Banaras and
Lucknow.
Kathkali – Kathkali is a "story play" genre of art, but one
distinguished by the elaborately colorful make-up, costumes
and face masks that the traditionally male actor-dancers
wear. Kathakali is a Hindu performance art in the Malayalam-
speaking southwestern region of Kerala.

Kuchipudi – Kuchipudi originated in a village

named  Kuchipudi in the Indian state of  Andhra
Pradesh.

Oddissi - Odissi is a dance form from the state of Odisha

in eastern India.
Manipuri - Manipuri dance, also known as Jagoi, is one of the
major Indian classical dance form, named after the region of
its origin – Manipur, a state in northeastern India bordering
with Myanmar , Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram.

Mohiniyattam - Mohiniyattam, is one of the

famous classical dances of India that
developed and remained popular in the state
of Kerala.
 Creative Dance
The adaption of Western theatrical techniques imbued with
elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dances is a
creative form. Uday Shankar layed the roots of this modern
Indian dance.
The art of creativity, improvisation, and imagination is the basis
for any sort of creative dance. The creative dance forms laying
emphasis on seeking the essence of the cultural legacy giving it
a distinct Indian identity.
Shanti Bardhan a disciple of Uday Shankar gave us immortal
Ramayana with human beings performing like puppets.