Some songs mimicked a given raga's melody and rhythm faithfully others newly blended elements of different ragas. They emulated the tonal colour of classical ragas to varying extents. Influenced by the thumri style of Hindustani music, they ran the entire gamut of human emotion, ranging from his early dirge-like Brahmo devotional hymns to quasi-erotic compositions. His songs are known as rabindrasangit ('Tagore Song'), which merges fluidly into his literature, most of whichâpoems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alikeâwere lyricised. The leading proponent of Bengali music is Rabindranath Tagore (known in Bengali as Robi Thakur and Gurudeb, the latter meaning 'Respected Teacher' (in the Bengal of that time, the suffix 'deb' was an honorific, ascribed to people who enjoyed immense respect, but this title was primarily used by his students at Santiniketan, though many others did use the address/ ) Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit.
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