Carnatic Music
Concepts
Sruti • Swara • Raga • Tala • Melakarta
Compositions
Varnam • Kriti • Geetham • Swarajati • Ragam Thanam Pallavi • Thillana
Instruments
Veena • Mridangam • Ghatam • Morsing • Kanjira • Pullankuzhal • Violin • Tambura
Composers
List of Carnatic composers

Kriti is also a spelling of Crete, Greece

"Kriti" is also the Hindi word for "creation". It is used as a first name in India.

Kriti is a format of a musical composition typical to Carnatic music, an Indian classical music style. Kritis form the backbone of any typical Carnatic music concert and is the longer format of a carnatic music song.

[edit] Structure

Kritis typically contain three parts

1. Pallavi. This is the equivalent of a refrain in Western music.
2. Anupallavi. The second verse, which is sometimes optional.
3. Charanam. The final (and longest) verse that wraps up the song. The Charanam usually borrows patterns from the Anupallavi. The charanam's last line usually contains the composer's sign, or mudra, with which the composer leaves their mark.

Some Kritis have a verse between the anupallavi and the charaṇam, called the chiṭṭaswara. This verse consists only of notes, and has no words. Still others have a verse at the end of the charaṇam, called the madhyamakāla. Often times, the artists take up certain lines of a Krithi for neraval.

[edit] External links

• Sivakumar Carnatic Music Archive Kriti collection

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