Carnatic classical

Also called Karnatak music, Karnatic music, South Indian classical music

The art-music system of South India: raga and tala, a kriti-centered concert, and a pedagogy of composed song plus improvisation (alapana, niraval, kalpanaswara, tani avartanam). It is a tradition, not a Western-style genre, and the named sibling of Hindustani classical — not a dialect of it and not a child of it. Trinity composers (Tyagaraja, Dikshitar, Syama Sastri) fix the modern concert book. Vedic chant is older sung craft in the same culture; prestige genealogy is not a sounding parent, and the hop is not drawn (same refuse as on the Hindustani file). Temple and court are the older rooms; the sabha is the modern one. Empty Received/Given is historically checked. Hindustani leftover as sibling conversation, not a parent. Temple leftover as a room, not a parent. Western fusion leftover as later meetings.