February 9, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
We have so many musical instruments in India. So all of us know about all instruments? I don’t know most of them. So it is of course not right on my part to describe these instruments in my blog:)
But I did find interesting information on http://sify.com/carnaticmusic/fullstory.php?id=13167931&page=1 . it is worth reading.
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February 1, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
If anyone wants to start learning music really thoroughly….first the basics and theory is important…. this can be learnt very well from http://www.khazana.com/et/music/gentle1.asp?mscssid=5A1V2QVKH13D9JA8R5BUMHQH8759DGG9
I founf the information amazing. the lessons are divided into parts. but one must be passionate to have the patience to go through so much info. Its a lot….but it is worth knowing [...]
January 21, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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 [...]
January 10, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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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January 10, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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 [...]
January 10, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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 [...]
January 8, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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 [...]
January 8, 2010 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
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, [...]
December 10, 2009 - Posted by vidhya- 0 Comments
I was looking through my blogs and found that I had decribed different aspects of music like raagam and swaram but I have missed out thalam….donno how…
Anyway….here we go
One of the main ingredients of music is rhythm which is nothing but the thalam. We can listen to variety of songs today from carnatic to rock….in [...]