UPSC 2015 CDS I GK Paper

Statement (3) is correct about the musical culture in 18th and19th century South India. Musical developments were notspearheaded by the Arcot court. Madras replaced Tanjavur (and not the vice versa, as given in the second item) as the cultural capital of classical music in the second half of the nineteenth century. Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri are known as the Trinity of Carnatic music. Kriti is a format of musical composition typical to Carnatic music. Conventional Kritis typically contain three parts:
1. Pallavi, the equivalent of a refrain in Western music
2. Anupallavi, the second verse, which is sometimes optional
3. Charanam, the final (and longest) verse that wraps up the song