Another lovely composition of Purandara Dasa…..Ksheerabhdhi Kannike…
Amma had heard the ladies in her ladies sing it at some temple….she always asked me to learn it. I never found this song. I always found another Telugu song also starting with Ksheerabdhi kannike. I have no idea if this is a translation of the same song. However, [...]
A very nice composition by Purandaradasa….here…he talks about how the tongue must be under contol..
This was a poem that we had in school..
You can listen to the song at http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/carnatic_vocal/s/composer.13/
But the song is not complete….there are few more parahs… I don’t remember them… so I have just put down what is there in the song [...]
Yadava nee baa is a song composed by Purandara dasa on Lord Krishna. A nice song. I have learnt it in the Abheri ragam. I think this song is also sung in many other raagams like Kanada, shanmugapriya….
Song: Yaadava nee ba
Ragam: Abheri
A: S G2 M1 P N2 S
Av: S N2 D2 P M1 G2 R2 [...]
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 [...]