Got a couple of requests that i should be telling the name of the raga of a song I discuss about. Frankly, I was dreading this.
From when I was a child till now thats one thing I haven't been able to do. Maybe it requires a math brain which I dont have. Something to do with my basics also. It got highly screwed up when I was in 5th standard. I last remember that the whole class failed in the annuals and there was a re exam. And we scraped through. Many fell through though.
And I couldn't really get the funda behind knowing a raga about a song. Maybe this attitude came up because I was bad at it.. :)
Talking about ragas, Sukumari from Anniyan, seems to be more on Saama, than Suddha Saveri. Since SS has S R M P D S, and we hear a lot of G happening. But it definitely has a the colour of SS. Very contradictory here you might say. But over time a lot of people will agree that its not just the notes that make a raga. Its also their treatment. So just the way you handle a note can make it sound like its something else though grammatically it will belong to one particular scale.
Sukumari's interludes are in Suddha Saveri. That also contributes to it. :)
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This has been my long time aspiration. I know just a little bit about Raagas (thanks to my carnatic music classes for a couple of years), and knowing more about each and every raaga has been on my perennial to-do list!
I am wondering if there is any genius out there who can just decode the raagas bases on the tune. I mean a utility ( computer software). I know you are better at music, but I feel that we can apply certain mathematical formulas and using the sound waves can identify the pattern and come up with a raaga. Wondering if something like that already exists.?
By the way first time here, thanks to the guy above me ( Twin -Gemini).
I appreciate your multi-faceted talent.
Keep up the good work
interesting post.will keep humming kumari and analysing.
By the way forgot to say thank you for deivam thandha poove(kannathil muthamittal).great song
Hmm these S/W utilities, will surely find a way to 'program' and 'decode' the raagas.
But i never got the knack for raagas. Only my shower knob knows those new raagas i creat, and they go down the drain with the water. By the Way, how many raagas are there in total? :-)
I always had that doubt after watching those 'Sabthaswarangal' sessions. I tried to keep them at least their names, but as the number grew, the names started slipping... :-)
But knowing the raagas arent that necessary to appreciate the songs, aint it?
too good, for being true.
whether you are on top of the raaga or not, you are on top of the songs.
hope to hear more of yours..
Hi,
I actually havent heard ur voice. But just know that u r a good singer. It also seems to me that u r very much into the music world.
Well happy blogging.
-Arathi
PS: I do like reading long blogs.So keep it up
Haha
its really like walking on razor edge kind of thing esp when it comes to identify or pinpoint a raga for film songs its all depends on what kind of mood they(MD&DIR) try to bring out so locking down a raga is not easy one for filmy songs unlike a classical number.
This song has certainly little shades of Sudha Saveri,Durga and little of Shyama esp in starting of the song.
In the movie Kandukonden Kandukonden
the song 'Kannamoochi' is based majorily on Nattakurunji but inbetween there will be sweet taste of ragam sahana comes through, very tastefully done indeed.
Keep writing, looking forward for more
Best Wishes
Ganes
Nice, the world is a small place. The last thing i would have guessed, when i started blog-browsing is to land up on Chinmayi's blogs !
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