kritin.
/ˈkrɪti/ In the music of southern India, a song, often devotional in character, which is deliberately composed and not an improvisation on a set theme.
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1914 A. H. F. Strangways Mus. Hindostan iii. 84 In Mudaliar Chinnaswami's Oriental Music sixty of his [sc. Tyagarāja's] songs (Kritis) are printed in staff notation.
1957 O. Gosvami Story Indian Music xix. 211 The Kriti is the most developed type of musical composition in the South.
1969 Indian Express (Bombay) 28 July 3/2 The krithi ‘Naradamuni’ in this raga was extremely pleasing.
1972 P. Holroyde Indian Music iii. 107 Kritis are sung in all tempos but without the long monosyllabic passages of the alamkaras or ornamentations.
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