Traditional Music of Sri Lanka
Pageantry
Pageantry is a highly evolved musical tradition in Sri Lanka. One can find almost all the traditional and unique music varieties in pageantry. Mostly, pageantry celebrates the traditional music and musical instruments in the county while transforming awareness of them to the people in Sri Lanka. Thus, the pageantries are a formation of different types of musical sounds with beats that come as one. Though it seems like a loud showcase, hearing all these sounds together is nice to hear and soothes our minds.
Kolam and Puppetry
Kolam and puppetry are fully musical events of ancient times. They kept the busy lives of Sri Lankans entertaining. These events perhaps mock some societal events or political incidents just as comedies. However, Kolam music is a low country-folk tradition. People wore masks and acted mocking some characters or according to some comedy scripts in the forms of drama
Nurthi Music
Nurthi is a stage drama that influenced by Parasi theater as a consequence of arriving the drama troupe in the latter part of the 19th century, which belonged to the Elphinstone Dramatic Company of India. Nurthi is the colloquial Sinhala form of the Sanskrit term “Nritya”. The music of Nurthi was based on North Indian Music
Sinhala Light Music
Light music once again was adopted from India that the renowned music artists in Sri Lanka visited there and learned about the genre and started producing that of Sinhala. But, unlike Nurthi, this is not a direct borrowing. They were just influenced by the genre in India and attempted to make something unique in the home. Hence, Sinhala light music is a successful attempt by our genius musicians who contributed to pioneering this genre
FOLK MUSIC
Jana Kavi
Originated as communal song shared within individual groups as they engaged in daily work. Today, they remain a popular form of cultural expression. Folk poems were sung by ancient people of Sri Lanka to minimize their loneliness, sadness, tiredness etc. especially when they used to watch over the crops at night.
Virindu
It involves an improvised poem sung to the beaten melody of a rabana. Traditional song contests were held in which two virindu singers would compete through spontaneous verse
BAILA
The Portuguese influenced Baila has been a popular folk tradition along the coastal districts in the past five hundred years and is now part of the mainstream music culture.
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