Engineering:Maddala Keli
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Short description: Genre in Carnatic music, featuring a set of maddalam drums as the main instrument
In Carnatic music, Maddala Keli or Maddalapattu is a musical genre featuring a set of maddalam drums as the main instrument – not chenda drums – with support from a row of ilathalam. A Maddala Keli work with five maddalam players is called Panchamaddalakeli; with ten players, Dashamaddalakeli. It sticks mainly to an eight-beat rhythmic cycle called Chembada or adi talam. It also has a segment called Kooru, where rhythmic cycles can be the six-beat panchari (pancharikkooru), the 14-beat adantha (adantha-kkooru) and the ten-beat chamba (chambakkooru). Scholars[who?] say the ensemble of thayambaka was developed from maddala keli.
See also
- Pandi Melam
- Panchari melam
- Panchavadyam
- Kathakali
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