March 29, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
I was watching some shows on TV where people participate for music competitions….I was suddenly struck by a thought….if you are a carnatic expert, if your basics are strong…can you go on to these competitions….????
Its a yes and a no….
Atleast thats what is my opinion….I’ll tell you why…
be it a hindi channel or a south indian language channel ( I have checked tamil, malayalam and kannada channels)….I see one thing…singing a movie song is a little different from carnatic….
March 24, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 1 Comment
Vijayaambike is a song that is composed in the Raagam Vijayanagari.
Vijayanagari raagam is derived from the 59th melakartha raagam called Dharmaavathi.
Aa: S R2 G2 M2 P D2 S
Av: S D2 P M2 G2 R2 S
Talam: Aadhi
This keerthanam was composed by Mutthaiah Baagavathar and is dedicated to goddess Chamundeshwari. This song is supposed to be in Kannada language (I thought it was sanskrit)…
I also read that the Vijanagari raagam was a finding Mutthaiah Baagavathar himself.
The lyrics of the song are (from karnatik.com)
March 17, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
This is a song that I had learnt a dance for…the dance was shabdam…
Its nostalgic…I just found this song by chance over the net and I kind of got back all my memories of bharathnatyam…could not stop myself from posting this song
The song is sarasijaakshulu….
this song is in Raagamaalika [not sure...some places I see it is kamboji...would be great if someone can clarify]with Triputa thalam.
This song describes the leelas or playfulness of Krishna with the Gopika girls
March 16, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 2 Comments
This is one of my favorite songs….it suits my base voice…and kind of a dream song because I always felt it was a tough one and I managed to sing it…self back patting u know…:))
March 12, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
This post is about one of the biggest and most lively songs I have learnt…..Sri Jaalandhara
This a beautiful song in the Gambeera nattai raagam.
March 11, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 1 Comment
This was a song that I leanrt twice. Once from my first teahcer and then re-learnt it when I changed teachers.
March 10, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 3 Comments
As promised in my previous post…here comes another beautiful composition in poornachandrika.
Thelisi Raama is composed by Thyagaraja.
Thalam: aadhi
and this time I have the meaning also…thanks to Karnatik.com
Karnatik.com gives 3 charanams…however I have learnt only one.
if you go to http://www.karnatik.com/c1053.shtml you could see a link to the audio file which you can listen to online….it is very nice….dont
pallavi
March 10, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
Another in the dheera Shankaraabharanam (29janya series….Ragam poornachandhrika…
I know 2 beautiful songs in this raagam.
1. Sri Ranganaatham upaasmahe
2. telisi Raama
Aa: S R2 G3 M1 P D2 P S
Av: S N3 P M1 R2 G3 M1 R2 S
This post will be about Sri Ranganaatham.
I learn this song with a chittaswaram. Nice lively raagam. …
Talam: Aadhi
March 9, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
I have been writing the last few posts on songs with raagas that are janya from Dheera shankarabharanam….
here comes one more in the line….
This post is about the song Vidajaaladura composed in the janaranjini raagam.
Janaranjini is another deritive of shankarabharanam.
March 8, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
One of the first songs that I learnt in which there was some amount of Akaaram…Bhajanaseya
This is a song composed in Kedaaram by Annamacharya in Rupaka thalam. Nice song with some nice chittaswram in it. The song song goes like this: