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MUSIC AND WEATHER/RAIN – TAN SEN MUSIC
Indo Pak music was used to be the enriched art in the sub continent. Tan Sen a greatest musician has a majic in his music which used to brought rain. The genius of Tansen sat at sadhna was the combination of two culture’s arts Muslim and Hindus and had introduced the world the relationship of music with God and human beings.
In the subcontinent specially in deserted area of Rajistan, Tharparkar etc the musicians created the effect of season through Ragas/typical tan sen music. The feelings of the seasons are incorporated in the ragas. Tan sen was the legendery in it and he used to perform miracles with his music/ragas. He painted pictures, brought rains, lighted fire with singing. The popular story tells about him is while watching birds in the jungle he noticed that by the whistling of birds in the dusk twigs caught fire. Tansen then experimented with ragas and formulated the raga Deepak. This raga when sung caused fire in the area of performance. During this time Akbar was the Emperor and his rivals forced Tansen to sing the raga so that every thing gets burnt. But Tansen asked for some time and in the mean while he taught a lady the raga to bring rains. This was the rag meg malhar, a very famous.
On the fixed day when Tansen was performing every thing got heated up. the lamps started glowing but nothing caught fire. This was because the lady was singing Megha Malhar which brought rains to douse off the fire. Such was the magic of Tansen who could alter the course of nature with his ragas. India has produced masters like Tansen.
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