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Information on Kandyan dances.

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Kandyan dance is a dance tradition that originated in the central highlands of Sri Lanka.  It is one of the main traditions of Sinhala dance.  At present it is widespread among the Sinhalese people in all parts of Sri Lanka.  It was a dance restricted to men until the end of the 19th century.  Today, women's Kandyan dances are also widespread. Dance Arts Basic Areas. ⭕ Kandy. ⭕ Udunuwara. ⭕ Yatinuwara. ⭕ Hathkoralaya. ⭕ Dumbara. ⭕ Harispattuwa. History of the Art of Dance. According to legends, the king who was ruling at that time saw a leopard jumping on his body in a dream.  According to the beliefs of the time, the king considered the dream to be a curse on Kuveni and fell seriously ill.  At the request of the king to cure the disease, a group of witches came to Ceylon from India and then performed a ritual called Kohomba Kankariya for the king.  History has it that the king was completely healed and that this was the beginning of the traditional Kandyan dance. Adding a Sri Lank...

Art is,

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Art is the process of consciously arranging the elements to address emotions or moods, or the result of that process.  It covers a wide range of human activities, creative and publishing media, including literature and music.  The meaning of art is explored in the branch of philosophy known as aesthetics . Defining and judging art has been particularly problematic since the early 20th century.  Richard Wolheim identifies three approaches related to this: the realist approach that considers aesthetic quality as an absolute value independent of human perspective;  An objectivist approach that recognizes that aesthetic quality is absolute but depends on the general human experience;  The relativistic position that aesthetics is not an absolute value, but rather that it depends on the human experiences of different people and is subject to change. [1]  An object, no matter what its visual function, can be characterized on the basis of its purpose or lack thereof, its creator, and so on.  A...

What is music?

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Music is a form of media sound.  The basic elements of music are the interval (which controls the melody and tone), the rhythm (which is associated with the concepts of rhythm and harmony), the dynamics and tone and the acoustic state of the texture.  The word is derived from the Greek word muses.  Written music before 1600 did not specify what instruments were needed to play it.  Those who composed music a century ago did not always specify which line should be harmonized or played by instruments.  It also did not always specify in which syllable the composed music should be played.  Rhythm dates back as far as 1200.  Therefore, there is a lot of speculation among modern musicians who played medieval and Renaissance music.  Renaissance musicians, however, must have been specifically trained in bidirectional banding, and may have acquired additional material for reading music. With the rise of music in the early 20th century, the re-creation of music as closely as possible to original ...