What are musical forms? Why do we need them? Give at least two different musical forms in Carnatic music
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Vinod Kumar
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Musical forms are the improvisations to prove the musicianship.Geethams, varnams,kritis keerthanams are various Carnatic musical forms
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The term musical form (or musical architecture) refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music, and it describes the layout of a composition as divided into sections
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Musical forms are different types of compositions like varnam geetham,krithi etc.we have to learn them to know the raga perfectly.
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Carnatic and Hindustani
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Swaravali, Alankaram, Geetham, Varnam and Keerthanam. These are the order of the musical forms in carnatic. We learn in this order to convert our speaking voice into singing voice and to get perfection to the sruthi(scale and taalam called as layam
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