Venkatamakhin

Venkatamakhin

Venkatamakhin also known as Venkateshwara, was a prominent musicologist and composer of Carnatic music; renowned for his "Chaturdandi Prakashika" in which he explicates the melakarta system of of classifying ragas.cite journal | last = Subramaniam |first = L. |title = The reinvention of a tradition: Nationalism, Carnatic music and the Madras Music Academy, 1900-1947 | journal = Indian Economic & Social History Review | volume = 36 | issue = 2 | pages = 131-163 |year = 1999] Venkatamakhin composed geethams and prabandhas, as well as 24 ashtapadis in praise of Lord Thyagaraja of Tiruvarur.

Venkatamakhin was the son of Govinda Dikshita, a Kannada brahmin from Mysore. Govinda Dikshita himself was a scholar and musicologist, as well as a minister in the kingdom of Thanjavur. [The Cultural Setting of South Indian Music, Raymond E. Ries, Asian Music, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Autumn, 1969), p 4] Venkatamakhin received his formal training under his elder brother, Yagnanarayana Dikshita.

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