Alaapanai and kalpana swaram
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 the song he is going to sing. Aalaapanai is normally a sung in a slow tempo going up to a medium tempo. It is always sung without pronouncing the swarams…..only the sound ‘aa’ is used.
Kalpana swaram is sung in between the anu pallavi and charanm or at the end of all the charanams. Here, it is similar to the aalapanai…however, the notes (swarams) are sung and the tempo goes from slow to very fast.
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