By S. Sankaranarayanan in Sruti (1998) | Excerpts that remain relevant today: Observations on the teaching of music at the Rotterdam Conservatory, Holland: Along with theory and history of music, the students [at the Rotterdam Conservatory] also acquire knowledge of ancillary aspects such as voice modulation and the reading and writing of notation. However, weightage …
Category archives: Melakarta (mela)
Flow | Mela practice
sa = middle octave (madhya sthayi), ‘sa = higher octave (tara sthayi)Explore renditions of raga Mayamalavagaula, raga (Dhira)Sankarabharanam and raga (Meca)Kalyani on YouTube >>Listen to two kritis in ragas Simhendramadhyamam and Sankarabharanam (6th and 7th items)sung by Bhushany Kalyanaraman >>Find song lyrics (composers) & translations for these and other ragas >> raagam: mAyAmALavagauLaAa: S R1 G3 M1 …
Flow | Mela practice – svara pairs
More about this exercise Vocalists and instrumentalists practice pairs of notes (janta svara) with the aim of increasing fluency and precision. Janta phrases are embedded in many compositions heard in today’s concerts (notably varnam, kriti and tillana) and as part of improvised interludes (manodharma sangīta): kalpana svara and tanam as clearly heard in the following …
Flow | Mela practice – svara pairs (3 counts)
Rūpaka tāla (3 counts/syllables) Lesson 4: “ta ki ta“- trikāla = 3 speeds Full lesson: Practice four widely used Carnatic talas >> Listen & learn more Listen to a rendition by Meera Seshadri in Rupaka tala (tala starting from 1:18): Bhupala Gitam (5 notes) >> Vocalists and instrumentalists practice pairs of notes (janta svara) with the …
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Visualising ragas from many places and even future ones “for the benefit of the people”
In Tanjore as a Seat of Music (pp. 420-426), S. Seetha explains the scope envisaged by Venkatamakhi when presenting his mela arrangement >> Venkatamakhi while justifying the derivation of 72 melakartas by permutation and combination interestingly remarks that countries are many with people having variety of tastes and it is to please them ragas have been …