.........................Instruments

• Dotara
  

The Dotota is a two or four stringed musical instruments resembling a small guitar. It is commonly used in Bangladesh n west Bengle and dates from the 15th-16th century when it was adopted by the ascetic cults of cults and bauls.
The Dotara is singlemost folk music instrument used in various genres of folk music throughout the land of Bengal. It has two main forms Bangla n Bhawaiya. The Bangla form originated from "Rahr Bangla" where it is still predominantly played. It has metal strings which give it brighter tone rhan the other instruments played in the area.
The Bhawaiya from dotora is almost extinct in contemporary time n has more primeval beginning than it's Bangla cousin. Again the strings are its sriking feature,being either made of thick cotton strings or more popularly of catgut,giving it a more bass timbre. This instrument is widely used in bhawaiya, Jaalpariya and Mahishali forms of folk music prevailing in and around the Bengle province.

Musical instruments of Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a good number of musical instruments originally of her own. Originally country musical instruments include Bansi(bamboo flute), Dhole(wooden drums), Ektara(a single stringed instrument), Dotara(four stringed instrument), Mandira(a pair of metal bowls used as rhythm instrument), Khanjoni, Sharinda.etc

Small description of instruments

• Bansuri

The Bansuri is a transverse of flute alto India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, made of a long stick bamboo with six or seven open finger holes. An ancient musical instrument associated with cowherds and the pastoral tradition, it is intimately linked to the love story of Radha Krishna. and Krishna's Rasha Lila, the tunes on his flute are poetically associated with driving the women of Braj mad. it also is depicted in Buddhist paintings from around 100AD. The North Indian Bansuri,tipically about 14" was traditionally used as a shoprano instrument primarily for accompaniment in lighter compositions including film music. There are many size of Bansuri from 14" to 30".

Classification of Folk song of Bangladesh

The most vast and enriched part of Bangla music is Folk music. It has a long history.Folk music is classified into many ways. These are-

1. Baul
2. Jari
3. Kirton
4. Pala
5. Jari
6. Shari
7. Bhandari
8. Bhatiyali
9. Bhawaiya
10. Gomvira
11. Gajir geet
12. Hason Raja
13. Jatra
14. Kobi gaan
15. Lalon
16. Murshia
17. Upojatiyo
18. Murshidi
19. Wedding songs

Artists of Bangla music

Artists of Bangla music

Artists of adhunic gaan:

• Female

1. Runa Laila
2. Sabina Yasmin
3. Shahnaz Rahmatullah
4. Shakila Jafar
5. Samina Chowdhury
6. Fahmida Nobi
7. Kanak Chapa
8. Nilufar Yasmin
9. Abida Sultana
10. Fatema-tuz-johra
11. Rebeka Sultana
    

• Male

1. Abdul Jabbar
2. Khurshid Alam
3. Bashir Ahmed
4. Syed Abdul Hadi
5. Mahmudun-nabi
6. Shubir Nandi
7. Andrew Kishore
8. Khalid Hasan Milu
9. Asif Akbar
10. Tapan Chowdhury
    

Artists of pop, rock music and hip hop music

1. Azam Khan
2. Hasan
3. Firoz Shai
4. Fakir Alamgir
5. Amani Latiff
6. Happy Akhand
7. Lucky Akhand
8. Kumar Bishwajit
9. Proshanto Das
10. Tishma
11. Mila Islam
    
12. Habib Wahid
    
13. Balam
14. Arnob
15. James
16. Jewel
17. Stoic bliss
18. Deshi Mcs
19. Jasper
20. Thujz on roids
21. Blazzin Annex
22. T.O.D>Thugs of Dhaka
23. cosMIcs aka CMC
24. Disciplis
25. Lal MIa
26. Devious
27. Sinister
28. Impact
29. Hridoy Khan
    

• Band groups

1. L.R.B
2. Miles
3. Feelings
4. Ark
5. Souls
6. Obscure
7. Feed Back
8. Winning
9. Chime
10. Warfaze
11. Artcell
12. Aurthohin
13. Black
14. Shironamhin
15. Yatri
    
16. Icons
17. Fire brand

Artists of Classical music

1. Begum Akhter
2. Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty

Artists of Nazrul geeti

1. Angur Bala
2. Arjumand Banu
3. Dalia Nawsheen
4. Firoza Begum
5. Lina Taposhi Khan
6. Khairul Anam
7. Khaled HossinShamsi Faruque shimki
8. Laila Arjumand Banu
9. Sadia Afrin Mallik
10. Shabnam Mushtari
11. Shaheen Mahmud Samad
12. Shohrab Hossain
13. Nilufar Yasmin
14. Laila Sharafi
15. Sudhin Das
16. Neelima Das
17. Sumon Chowdhuri

Artists of Rabindra shangeet

1. Papia Sarwar
2. Rezwana Chowdhuri Bonya
3. Milia Ali
4. Abid
5. Atiqul Islam
6. Fahmeeda Khatun
7. Iffat Ara Dewaan
8. Kalim Sharafi
9. Mita Hoque
10. Sadi Muhammad Takiullah
11. Chanchal Khan
12. Iqbal Ahmed
13. Shirajus Salekin
14. Lily Islam
15. Sanjeeda Khatun
16. Zahedur Rahman
17. Kaderi Kibria

Artists of Folk music

1. Abbas Uddin
2. Abdul Alim
3. Abdul Karim
4. Abdur Rahman Bayati
5. Binoy Banshi Das
6. Bijoy Sharkar
7. Farida Parvin
8. Ferdousi Rahman
9. Horolal Ray
10. Kanai Lal Shil
11. Kangalini Sufia
12. Khodabox shai
13. Kutubul Alam
14. Neena Hamid
15. Saidur Rahman Bayati
16. Rathindranath ray
17. Rawshan Bayati

Western influence in Bangla music

Fusion music is part of our music. It actually comes from western music. This music needs electronic instruments. It has re-popularised Bangla music, fusion music is mainly variations in tempo and rhythms. Like jazz music is called fusion work. This style is really very different as well as difficult.
pop music is also a important part of our fusion work. in the past we didn't have these parts so much enriched. But now the new generation has increased fusion's area.Rock music also comes from western music.

Free lyricks of Bangla song

Valobashar shob koti rong aj k j mon dekhte chay,
joto kase paro tomay aro kase pete chay.

surjer oi lal alote tomake rangate chai,
josna rate rupor aloy tomay ami pete chai.
joto kase paro tomay aro kase pete chai.

vabna vora nibir nile chute ami chai,
bashontiro modhur preme vromor hote chai
joto kase paro tomay aro kase chai......

Classification of Bangla misic.

Bangla music is enriched by many ways. the sections are like this: Nazrul giti, Rabindra shangit, lalon giti. Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rabindranath Tagore, Lalon shah created these songs. they created different tipes of classical songs, modern songs, folk songs, prayer songs. Kazi Nazrul Islam mainly composed music about nature,clash between different religion and culture, general people,war and so on.Rabindranath tagore composed also like this. and Lalon Shah composed songs on Almighty God, birth and death, religion and so many other things.actually his songs were prayer to God for him. His music are about Hindu Mithology.

The necessary primary knowledge of Bangla music

For Bangla music we need some important things which make music very perfect and established.like "Taal","lay"etc.The first and most important thing is "Taal"."Taal" comes from the movement of our body.clapping is the main source of Taal. people says that "Ta" for "Tandob dance" and "L" for "Lassho dance".that means "tandob dance" is the male dance and "lassho dance" is female dance.actually in every aspects of our life we have Taal.at the time of walking or swimming or any other work we have to maintain these taal.after maintaining taal we can be a man of well manner.

Easy ways to know about Bangla music

music is the art which is found in every religion.even the eskimoes also possess their own music. it is one of the most important part of every culture.Actually music comes from Hindu religion. music can be created from it's original source.and the main source of music is called "Thhat".there are 104 kinds of thhat in music world.among this 72 that are English and 32 are Indian.again among this 32 Indian that 10 are Bangla thhat .from these 10 Bangla thhat Bangla music are created by many ways.these 10 Bangla thhats are "Bilabol","ashabori","kafi","kollan",khambaz","Voirob/Voiro","Voirobi","Purobi","Marba","Tory". these 10 thhats are the source of bangla music.