Remembering Tansen, India’s great Musician


	Remembering Tansen, India’s great Musician

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12-17-2007 12:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f4d1557c-6249-4354-934c-4688485d70a7/9DD88801-3C4F-4337-9DD0-7CB3C02F98AD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/" href="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/" style="font-size: 11px;">indianmuslims.in</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/">Legendary musician, Tansen, is considered the greatest singer-musician ever born in India.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/">
One of the nau-ratnas (nine jewels) in the court of Emperor Akbar, Tansen was born around 1505 AD near Gwalior.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/">Though a Hindu by birth, the ‘Sangeet <EM>Samrat</EM>‘ was also a believer in Islam. He was a disciple of <SPAN>Sufi Saint Sheikh Muhammad Ghaus</SPAN>, and after his death the great musician was buried near his spiritual master’s mazaar.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/">The annual Tansen Cultural Festival started in Gwalior recently. The four day long event was inaugurated with <SPAN><FONT color="#000000">Hari Katha, Milad and recital of verses from Holy Quran</FONT></SPAN>, as per the age-old tradition.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/indianmuslims.in/img/9E5DB6E8-2808-40BC-B908-2D7FFC6AFF33" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://indianmuslims.in/culture-fest-begins-remembering-tansen-indias-great-musician/">Tansen’s real name was Ramtanu Pandey. He learnt music under the tutelage of <SPAN>Saint Hari Das, also a Bhakti Sant</SPAN>. (The painting above shows him in the company of his guru Sant Hari Das and the Emperor Akbar). It is commonly believed that this singer-instrumentalist could bring rains with Raga Megha Malhar and candles would light immediately when he started singing the Deepak Raga.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DD88801-3C4F-4337-9DD0-7CB3C02F98AD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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