Rabindra Sangeet

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Dance accompanied by Rabindra Sangeet

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Rabindra Sangeet (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রসঙ্গীত Robindro shonggit, Bengali pronunciation: [ɾobind̪ɾo ʃoŋɡit̪]), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. They have distinctive characteristics in the music of Bengal, popular in India and Bangladesh. "Sangeet" means music, "Rabindra Sangeet" means Songs of Rabindra.

Rabindra Sangeet used Indian classical music and traditional folk music as sources.^{[citation needed]}

Collection composition

The collection of all the songs written by Rabindranath is called 'Gitabitan' (garden of songs). The six major parts of this book are Puja (worship), Prem (love), Prakriti (Nature) and Bichitra (Diverse), swadesh(patriotism) and aanushthanik (celebration).

Singers of Rabindrasangeet

Some of the well-known singers of Rabindrasangeet are:

• Abdul Ahad
• Amiya Tagore
• Malati Ghosal
• Kanika Bandyopadhyay
• Rezwana Chowdhury Banya
• Debabrata Biswas
• Suman Chatterjee
• Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
• Banani Ghosh
• Santidev Ghosh
• Kishore Kumar
• Asha Bhosle
• Kavita Krishnamurthy
• Suchitra Mitra
• Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay
• Pankaj Mullick
• Anisur Rahman
• Subinoy Roy
• Nilima Sen
• Indrani Sen
• Indranil Sen
• Sagar Sen
• Lopamudra Mitra
• Srikanto Acharya
• Srabani Sen

Teachers of Rabindrasangeet

India

Some of the well-known teachers of Rabindrasangeet (barring Tagore himself) are:

• Dinendra Nath Tagore
• Shantideb Ghosh
• Ruma Guha Thakurta
• Suchitra Mitra
• Kanika Bandyopadhyay
• Subinoy Roy
• Nilima Sen

Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, prominent Rabindrasangeet trainers who have contributed to developing new artists include :

• Abdul Ahad
• Anisur Rahman
• Abdul Wadud
• Rezwana Chowdhury Banya
• Waheedul Haq

Institutes

• Visva-Bharati University
• Rabindra Bharati University
• Dakshinee

References

• Tagore, Rabindranath (1992). Sangit Chinta. Vishwa Bharati. 
• Tagore rocks?, The Music Magazine
• Ghosh, Śhantideba (2006). Rabindrasangeet vichitra. Concept Publishing Company. ISBN 81-8069-305-8. 
• Bandhopadhyaya, Beerendra (1981). Rabindra-sangit. Granthalaya. 
• Das, Praphulla Kumar (1962). Rabindra Sangeet Prasanga: Part 1 & 2. Jignasa Agency Limited. ISBN 81-85587-12-4. 
• Ghosh, Shantidev (1942). Rabindrasangit. Vishwa Bharati Grantha Vivag. 
• Ray, Subinoy (1962). Rabindrasangit Sadhana. A. Mukherjee and Co. Private Ltd. 
• Majumdar, Shailajaranjan (1989). Rabindrasangit chinta. Pascimbangla rajya sangit akademi. 

Further reading

• Som, Reba (2009). Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and his Song. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books (Viking). ISBN 978-0-670-08248-3. 

External links

• Obtain a complete copy of Gitobitan from here
• tagoreweb.in, contains complete works of Tagore, including his songs, and scores.
• rabindrasangeet.org, is a free and public repository of information on Tagore songs. It has the lyrics and scores of all Tagore songs. The lyrics are text searchable.
• rabindrasangeet.com, more on Rabindra Sangeet