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?

What will be an ideal response?

• 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.