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Rabindra Sangeet, the Glossary

Rabindra Sangeet (রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the first non-European to receive such recognition.^[1]

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A. H. Fox Strangways

Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (14 September 18592 May 1948) was an English musicologist, translator, editor and music critic.

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Amar Sonar Bangla

"" (lit) is the national anthem of Bangladesh.

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Amjad Ali Khan

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans.

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Auld Lang Syne

"Auld Lang Syne" is a popular Scottish song, particularly in the English-speaking world.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Bengali calendars

The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar (Baṅgābda), colloquially (Baṅgla Śon), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the South Asia.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. Rabindra Sangeet and Bengalis are Bengali-language literature.

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Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী,; lit. The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur) is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed in Brajabuli by Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindra Sangeet and Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali are Bengali-language literature.

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Brajabuli

Brajabuli is an artificial literary language popularized by the Maithili poet Vidyapati.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Rabindra Sangeet and Carnatic music are Indian styles of music.

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Chinmoy Chattopadhyay

Chinmoy Chattopadhyay (Bengali: চিন্ময় চট্টোপাধ্যায়; also Chinmoy Chatterjee; 7 October 1930 – 26 July 1987) was a Bengali singer, primarily known for singing Rabindrasangeet songs.

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Debabrata Biswas

Debabrata Biswas (also known as George Biswas and George-da; 22 August 1911 – 18 August 1980), was an Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer.

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Deccan Herald

Deccan Herald is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Dhan Gopal Mukerji (ধন গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায়; Dhan Gōpāl Mukhōpādhyāy) (6 July 1890 – 14 July 1936) was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928.

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DP Mukerji

Dhurjati Prasad Mukerji (5 October 1894 – 5 December 1961), known as DP Mukerji, was an Indian professor and sociologist.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gita Govinda

The Gita Govinda (गीतगोविन्दम्; IAST: gītagovindam) is a work composed by the 12th-century Hindu poet, Jayadeva.

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Gitabitan

Gitabitan is a book forming a collection of all 2,232 songs (Rabindra Sangeet) written by Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore.

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Hemant Kumar

Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar was a legendary Indian music director and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu.

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Hindustani classical music

Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions. Rabindra Sangeet and Hindustani classical music are Indian styles of music.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian National Congress

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indira Devi Chaudhurani

Indira Devi Chaudhurani (29 December 1873 – 12 August 1960) was an Indian literary figure, author and musician.

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Jaijaivanti

Jaijaivanti or Jaijaiwanti is a Hindustani classical raga belonging to Khamaj Thaat.

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Jana Gana Mana

Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জান গান মানুষ) is the national anthem of the Republic of India. Rabindra Sangeet and Jana Gana Mana are Bengali music and Bengali-language literature.

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Jayadeva

Jayadeva (born), also spelt Jaideva, was a Sanskrit poet during the 12th century.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Kanika Banerjee

Kanika Banerjee (12 October 1924 – 5 April 2000) was a Bengali Rabindra Sangeet singer.

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Meend

In Hindustani music, meend (Hindi: मींड, مینڈ) refers to a glide from one note to another.

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Meghadūta

Meghadūta (मेघदूत literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets.

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Murki

Murki is a short taan or inverted mordent in Hindustani classical music, known as pratyahatam in Carnatic music.

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Music of Bengal

Bengali music (বাংলা সংগীত) comprises a long tradition of religious and secular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. Rabindra Sangeet and music of Bengal are Bengali music and culture of West Bengal.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Partition of Bengal (1905)

The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj.

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Polymath

A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Rabindra Nritya Natya

Rabindra Nritya Natya is the group of four dance-dramas composed by Bengal's Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore: Chitrangada, Chandalika, Shyama and Shrabangatha.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.

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Raga

A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode.

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Reba Som

Dr.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Sadhu bhasha

Sadhu bhasha (Chaste language) or Sanskritised Bengali was a historical literary register of the Bengali language most prominently used in the 19th to 20th centuries during the Bengali Renaissance.

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Sagar Sen

Sagar Sen (15 May 1932 – 4 January 1983) was a Bengali singer.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Saregama

Saregama India Ltd., formerly known as The Gramophone Company of India Ltd., is India's oldest music label company, owned by the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group of companies.

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Sarod

The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent.

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Shakuntala (play)

Abhijñānaśākuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works.

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Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

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Subinoy Roy

Subinoy Roy (8 November 1921 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian singer, considered one of the best-known exponents of the Rabindra Sangeet.

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Suchitra Mitra

Suchitra Mitra (19 September 1924 – 3 January 2011) was an Indian singer, composer, artist exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore, professor, and the first woman Sheriff of Kolkata.

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Sumitra Sen

Sumitra Sen (7 March 1933 – 3 January 2023) was an Indian Bengali singer and an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

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Tala (music)

A tala (IAST tāla) literally means a 'clap, tapping one's hand on one's arm, a musical measure'.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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Thumri

Thumri is a vocal genre or style of Indian music. Rabindra Sangeet and Thumri are Indian styles of music.

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Upanishads

The Upanishads (उपनिषद्) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.

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Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism.

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Valmiki-Pratibha

Vālmīki-Pratibhā (বাল্মীকি-প্রতিভা, Balmiki Protibha, lit. The Genius of Vālmīki) is an opera by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Vilayat Khan

Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player, considered by many to be the greatest sitarist of his age.

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Visva-Bharati University

Visva-Bharati (IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī), is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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Works of Rabindranath Tagore

The works of Rabindranath Tagore consist of poems, novels, short stories, dramas, paintings, drawings, and music that Bengali poet and Brahmo philosopher Rabindranath Tagore created over his lifetime.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindra_Sangeet

Also known as Rabindra Shangeet, Rabindrasangeet, Tagore Songs.

, Subinoy Roy, Suchitra Mitra, Sumitra Sen, Swami Vivekananda, Tala (music), The Observer, Thumri, Upanishads, Vaishnavism, Valmiki-Pratibha, Vilayat Khan, Visva-Bharati University, Western world, Works of Rabindranath Tagore.

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Bengali music

Music of Bengal

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