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Composers
Besides Tagore, Dwijendralal Ray is a dramatist, poet and composer who composed
many exquisite love songs and rousing patriotic songs and adapted the
European practice of Choral singing. The tide of innovations and experiments
in musical styles brought Atulprasad Sen who composed songs of love, piety
and patriotism and popularised the Lucknow style of Thumri in Bengali
song.
A younger composer, Kazi Nazrul Islam, introduced the Ghazal form
in Bengali song with his memorable love songs and also virile marching
songs with his revolutionary lyrics. Bold innovations have continued to
be made by a number of music composers in the form and style of Bengali
song and folk songs of different regions of Bengal came to the presented
in pure and adapted forms. These activities developed in the 1940's into
the "modern" style of Bengali song-a bewildering medley attempts of fusion
of classical, folk, western pop and beat styles.
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