karnatic music is a classical music form from south  india,there are two melodic forms,raga and thalam.music is a organised and pleasent soound ,unorganised an unpleasent sound is called noise.music is called ISAI in tamil and nadham in north indian languages. the english word music originated from the greek word MOUSAI .muses is the god for music and fine arts like kuchipudi       karnatic music helps improve our voice including western singers come to india and learn karnatic music, it helps in the tune to become soft and i also learn karnatic music it is my favourite type of music it is so melodic and there are many ragas and thalas there are 72 fundamental ragas as i know some of them.