Aadhadhu Asangadhu…………..A beautiful song on lord Krishna…
Somehow it turns out that most of the catchy songs…filled with enthusiasm and livelyness…. are all songs on Lord Krishna…..
A nice simple song here in the Tamil language….
you can listen to it at http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/devotional/s/diety.33/
many other well known songs composed in this ragam are bhagyadha lakshmi baaramma, samajavara gamana
Now getting [...]
I got a few chances to display my talents as a classical dancer on stage… and some of these chances were given by my mother’s ladies club. I always had one place in their annual programs list…
One of the dances that I performed was for the song Jaya Janaki. Somehow….the song that I danced for [...]
We have heard of a lot of wonder kids….how they have special abilities…
I myself have spoken about one such Romanian kid’s singing in http://www.allyouwannaknow.net/musicandme/2008/11/18/ghita/
I found one such on the internet. There is this small girl…..who is learning carnatic music…and she has this incredible knowledge…or power….orjust listening capacity…whatever pone may call it….she can identify the raagam [...]
Another impressive movie song composed by Rahman for the movie duet……mettu podu… I love this song for its rhythm.
The lyrics are as follows
Song – MettuppOdu
Movie – Duet
Singer- SPBaalasubramaniam
raagam – aananda bhairavi
thangamE thamizhukkillai thattuppaadu
oru sarakkirukkudhu murukkirukkudhu mettuppOdu
mettuppOdu mettuppOdu
en thai kodhuttha thamizhukkilai thattuppaadu
etthanai sSabaigal kandOm etthanayetthanai thadayum kandOm
atthanayum Soodam kaatti chuttuppOdu
mettuppOdu mettuppOdu
ada kadalukkundu karppanaikkillai kattuppaadu
mettuppOdu..
idhu makkaL paattu [...]
This is a song that came across when I was listening to the songs of the movie morning raga. Beautiful song….its slow…but has got the gaiety in it.
Listen to it at http://www.video4viet.com/watchvideo.html?id=NcUCgRccQZk&title=M%20S%20Subbulakshmi%20Daru%20Varnam%20Mathe%20Malayadwaja%20Pandya%20Sanjathe%20Khamas
Song: Mathe maladwaja
Raagam: Kamaas
Aa: S M1 G3 M1 P D2 N2 S
Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S
Parent raagam: Harikambhoji (28th melakartha)
Taalam: [...]
I found this website
http://www.sadhanaschoolofarts.com/Material/Samples/
here you have samples of music pieces that can be downloaded. These are basics of music and so one can learn carnatic music basics online….try it…
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As I browse through the internet for different information, I stumble across a lot of websites. Not sure how many of them people know about. Just thought I shall mention a few of them here..
All these give us some insight about carnatic music
http://www.chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/carnatic_sangeet.html
http://www.karnatik.com/
http://www.indianmelody.com/carnaticintro.htm
Wikipedia about basic terms in carnatic music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_music#.C5.9Aruti
different types of songs
http://www.carnatica.net/sangeet/sahityanubhava2.htm
some comparisons between the [...]
Neeraval is another kind of improvisation in carnatic music. Here, the singer sings one line of the song repeatedly with different notes…of course maintaining the raagam, the rhythm…
Thanam is usually sung as part of the central ‘ragam-tanam-pallavi’ piece. Thanam has no thalam as such but has a distinct rhythm. The music is usually in the [...]
Aalapanai and kalpana swaram are 2 of the aspects of carnatic music where the musician shows his creativity and level of training in a particular raagam.
Aalapanai comes normally in the beginning of a song. Here the musician improvises gradually from a lower note in the raagam and goes ahead setting a mood and stage for [...]
I have described various different raagams in many of the songs that I have reviewed. I have sometimes mentioned that certain raagams are associated with a certain rasa….
This blog post is to throw a little light on this aspect of raagam…
Rasa is related to emotions….when I say the rasa associated with a raagam, I mean, [...]