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One of the karatala players is lead singer, and the dancer dances freely up and down between the two lines of players three on each side as in the drawing. * Indradyumna Swami, Harinama Eva Kevalamĭancing and instruments in the Sankirtan party:Įach party must consist of seven men as follows: two mrdanga, four karatala, and one dancer. When Srila Prabhupada first arrived in England in 1969, he told the devotees how, in Lord Caitanya’s sankirtana, instruments were played softly while accompanying the lead singer, and louder for the chorus, back and forth. Also in public programs whenever there were guests he almost always sang (sings standard Hare Krsna tune) or some similarly very simple melodies slowly and just gradually building to a crescendo. He said a good kirtana lasts half an hour to forty minutes and the first half an hour is all slow and then it speeds up to a crescendo the last ten minutes. The references are quotations, however, these some parts, which seamed less important, may be left out. Those, which have a * before them, are originally from the Kirtan Standards Book, published in 2008 by the Kirtan Standards Committee, led by H. Green notes are those, which are written by me, no exact source, these are based on those information which I’ve heard before, and my conclusions. Mahamantra, Vaisnava-, Bengali- and other, composed songs 74įestivals and other occasions for singing 79ĭoing kirtan as a living, kirtana celebrities 79 Other thoughts on melodies and instruments 71 Indradyumna Swami’s Preaching Festivals 59īalarama mridangas became replaced by Tilak mridangas 68 Second generation kirtaniyas (non-exhaustive list) 50ġ976: Srila Prabhupada Inspires Oxcart Padayatras in India 57ġ984–1986: Celebrating Lord Chaitanya’s Five-Hundredth Anniversary: 58ġ986–1996: The Worldwide Padayatra Explosion 58

Kirtaniya’s, kirtan groups and their style 44 Kirtaniyas who learned from Aindra prabhu 41ĥ. Presenting traditional ragas to the West 37īook: The Heart of Transcendental Book Distribution 40 Radha-Damodara Travelling Sankirtana Party 27Ĥ.

Starting with Srila Prabhupada in the early days in NYC and up to the present. Doing research into how kirtan has evolved in our society from the very beginning, with styles, instruments, singing, arrangements in and outside of temples, street sankirtan etc.