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As Music Composer
There is a profound and uniquely personal aspect to Ray's film art. Music. He said while making films he thought musically — all his film narratives are structured like sonatas.
 71 pieces of background music compiled from all the music Ray composed between 1961 and 1991
 
The first long-playing record released in the history of the Bengali cinema. Not only the songs, a number of instrumental pieces were also included

I argue that Ray, like Tagore, was a modern innovator in revolutionizing Indian music. The challenge to Ray came from the music he needed for his films. He relied at first on great musicians like Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan or Ali Akbar Khan.


He was dissatisfied. He started to score his own music. Here he was at his innovative best, first in Charulata, and then in his Goopy & Bagha adventure films.
 
 
 
Rehearsal with the playback singer, Anup Ghosal, for
The Return of Goopy and Bagha
 
                  Mixing different tracks containing various
                     pieces played on various instruments
 
For his later films, Ray started writing his notation in Bengali style
Ray considered some thirty of Tagore's two thousand songs to be original compositions. He used a few in Charulata .


In Hirak Rajar Deshe , Ray blended the folk Baul tradition and classical Karnataki with his own unique style .




 
For his earlier films, even for his first musical, Ray wrote his songs and tunes in European style
Contributed by DKB Top
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