When did carnatic music begin to take its present shape? List the three great “saint-poet-composers” of this period. Whose songs dominate the repertoire today?

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  • The "golden age" of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  • Syama Sastry (1762 – 1827), Tyagaraja (1767 – 1847), and



Muttuswamy Dikshitar (1776 – 1836)


  • Tyagaraja's songs dominate the repertoire today

  • because of the accessibility of both their poetry and music.

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