Bengali Songs and Music

Bengali music dates back to the 18^th century where the angler, workers and agricultural people sung their verses to forget their pain. Later it grew to accommodate several changes. Some of the notable changes are listed here,

1. Charjapad, one of the oldest Bengali music specimens was the greatest inspiration for the Bengali music. Several of its verses were sung with music in both the Hindustani style and in the hip-hop style. These were narrative type of songs, which depicted philosophy, religion and spiritual.
2. Later the way of singing the lyrics changed from a normal narrative fashion to much of a romantic fashion. Other than philosophy, literature and spirituality a few famous genres like romance, expressions grew faster.
3. The folk songs of Sufi genre have depicted the slow harmonics and melodies into the folk. Integration of fast beat and melody rhythm attracted several people and many musicians.
4. Rabindranath Tagore and other famous laureates created several notable Bengal music works. Several patriotic Bengali music and lyrics have kindled the hearts of the Indian citizen’s. Tagore has composed several of the songs by himself and hence most of the songs in Bengal during his time had a similar composition.
5. Initial local musical instruments were later fused into electronic instruments. The new electronic instruments and the special way to edit the music have made them special. The Bengal lyrics and special advanced Bengal music in the modern instruments have added a shrill to the ears of the Bengal music listeners.

Bengal music is classified into classical music and Rabindra Sangeet. The Bengali classical music is called as ragas. They have their base in the Carnatic ragas. Several pundits like Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, and Ustad Abed Hossain Khan are some of the notable musicians. The Rabindra Sangeet is another famous form of fusion between the Indian and the Western music. Rabindra Sangeet are again classified into several Bengali music like,

1. Patriotic Genre: Swadesh Porjai
2. Romantic Genre: Prem Porjai
3. Prayer Genre: Puja Porjai

These are some of the famous genres of the Rabindra Sangeet. The best part of the Rabindra Sangeet is that, Rabindranath Tagore learnt European music and he mixed the Bengali music with that of the European music. He did compositions with various variations of the Sub-continental music. It was after him the fusion was named as the Rabindra Sangeet. He fundamentally created a new dimension to the Bengali music. Yet, all of these genres were connected to poles of love and life.

Bengali Songs

Bengali songs and Bengali music grew faster than any other music and songs. The main reason for this faster and stronger Bengali song development is that West Bengal is by itself music demography. People residing in the state of Kolkata and West Bengal have a passion for music and songs.

Music is an intra-property of the Bengali people and it was their slow way to express love, hatred, happiness and sadness. They have used Bengali songs for all occasion right from birth to the death. The beauty of the open space, greenery and verdant vegetation have led them to sing Bengali songs with their best green music. The most common music instrument is the flute that is available in every home of Bengali people.

The Bengali villages and the flowing rivers have added much music to the Bengali songs. The songs portray not only the occasions, happiness and sadness but also the culture, tradition and the lifestyle of the people in both the villages and in the city.

The most famous types of Bengali songs are the Bengali folk songs that clearly portray the Bengali people traditions and their agriculture methodologies. The very famous genre among the Bengali folk songs is the Baul. Bauls are sung in the rural Bengal especially in villages where people join to discuss about their sorrows and happiness through lyrics and music. This forms the beautiful Bengal folk song.

One should not estimate that the Bengal is known for folk songs only. Bengali people are experts in singing Rabindra Sangeet, which is a mixture of the Hindustani music and the western music. After the growth of the Bengal movie industry the growth of Bengal songs have become very easy and after. Bengal movies started to broadcast Bengal songs from different genres. Several super hit songs were produced soon in the Bengali movies. Sometimes Bengali movie hit the crowd just because of the melodies it plays.

Though the initial constriction proceeded for a few years, the advancements in Bengali songs lead to many other genres. Bengali folk songs are different from that of the Bengali urban music. Urban Bengali music is older than 200 years and Bengali folk songs are older than that of the Bengali urban songs.

Today the advancements in Bengali music is so intense that almost all Bengali movie songs are now available online for download or in the CD/DVD format.