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Item Improvisation of Ethno-Musicological Aspects in Sri Lankan Film Music (Study based on Abā and Agnidāhaya Sinhala Movies(International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Kumara, J.C.R.The focus of this study is to identify the Ethno Musicological aspects and its improvisation in Sri Lankan film music industry. The origin of the term ‘ethnomusicology’ is attributed to the Dutch scholar Jaap Kunst (1950), who used it, in the subtitle of his book musicologia. It is the anthropology of music, the study of music in its cultural, historical, economic and linguistic context. In this paper, the question of how ethnomusicologist and scholars might treat music composed to accompany film is explored in a cultural context by analysing the music applied in the renowned Sri Lankan films Abā and Agnidāhaya directed by Jackson Anthony and Jayantha Chandrasiri respectively. In the particular context of film that often times utilizes and applies the technology and its subsidiary tools to innovate a unique cultural demonstration through its art work, nurtures its authenticity by various aspects; choreography, costume, make-up and obviously using music as a cultural tool. In the films Abā, and Agnidāhaya, this aspect has been demonstrated at a significant level. Thus, they portrayed certain characteristics that necessarily promoted and propagated the Sri Lankan culture among other pieces of art work. In an overall, observation, Abā and Agnidāhaya, and its film music can be identified as a prelude to the Sri Lankan film industry in terms representing the ethno-musicological aspects which presenting the cultural norms and values of the selected community. The materials used to examine this concept include the literary survey, audio-video records and characteristic phrases as well as field survey conducted by the candidate.Item The Ethno-Musicological Aspects of Sri Lankan Music during the period of King Dutugemunu (161-137 BCE).(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Kumara, J.C.R.This research examines the historical background and the significance of Sri Lankan music during the period of King Dutugemunu (161-137 BCE). The literary evidence and the data analysed in the present study is significant because they reveal some important facts with regard to the origin and evolution of Sri Lankan music from the period of Anuradhapura. The evidence found from the particular period is diminished for a period, perhaps a century or more, and the causes of its disappearance can be evolved at various dimensions one of which is the diverse indological perspective of analysing and arguing the data, attempting to assum the Indian inspiration. 20th century Sri Lankan studies attempt to pursue the studies on Sri Lankan origin in which the present study scets the authentic characteristics of Sri Lankan music during the relevent period. The Impact of Buddhism on Sri Lankan Music during several phases of the selected period was necessarily discussed in this research to identify its foreign elements. It can be concluded that the evidence found from the particular period have provided some independent and indegenous characterestics of Sri Lankan music is resembles the ideological underlining of foreign inspiration with the passage of time and the need of the society.The present study involved both literature survey and the evidence and elements of the Sri Lankan music that were obtained from the primary source i.e. Mahavamsa, Chulavamsa and other texts, scholarly studies, and an examination of archeological information