Mayamalava Gowla
Aarohanam: S R₁ G₃ M₁ P D₁ N₃ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ D₁ P M₁ G₃ R₁ S Mayamalavagowla is a raga of Carnatic music. Originally known as malavagowla, \”maya\” was prefixed to it after the advent […]
Swara Sancharangal
Swara Sancharangal
What is Swara?
Swara is a Sanskrit word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or saptaka. More comprehensively, it is the ancient Indian concept about the complete dimension of musical pitch.
What is Sancharangal?
Sancharangal is a Malayalam word, which means travel of certain object.
Swara Sancharangal
In this blog, we are going to look how a swaram in a certain carnatic raaga travel (or) rendered to bring the essence of particular raaga. Usually this is presented by Artists while singing a song, usually before the start of the song.
We will go through each Raaga and understand basic swaras that can be recited to introduce a Raagam and Song in a concert.
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Bhairavi
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₂ M₁ P D₂ N₂ Ṡ Avarohanam: S‘ N₂ D₁ P M₁ G₂ R₂ S Bhairavi is a janya rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). Though it is a sampoorna rāgam (scale having all 7
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Abhogi
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₂ M₁ D₂ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ D₂ M₁ G₂ R₂ S The Carnatic raga Abhogi is a symmetric pentatonic scale that does not contain panchamam and nishadam. It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāga,
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Amrita Varshini
Aarohanam: S G₃ M₂ P N₃ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ P M₂ G₃ S Amr̥tavarṣiṇi is a rāgam that does not contain rishabham and dhaivatam and is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāga, meaning pentatonic scale). Amr̥tavarṣiṇi is considered
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Poorna Chandrika
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₃ M₁ P D₂ P Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ P M₁ R₂ G₃ M₁ R₂ S It is a janya rāga of the Melakartha raga, Sankarabharanam (29th Melakartha) p m p . p . p m r .
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Shuddha Saveri
Aarohanam: S R₂ M₁ P D₂ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ D₂ P M₁ R₂ S Shuddha Saveri is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain gāndhāram or nishādam, and It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāga, meaning pentatonic
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Hamsadhwani
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₃ P N₃ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ P G₃ R₂ S It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāga, meaning pentatonic scale). It is a janya rāga of the Melakartha raga, Sankarabharanam (29th Melakartha) but according to
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Arabhi
Aarohanam: S R₂ M₁ P D₂ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ D₂ P M₁ G₃ R₂ S 29th Melakarta Sankarabharanam janya
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Nattai
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₃ M₁ P D₂ N₃ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ D₂ P M₁ G₃ R₂ S 36th Melakarta calanATTai janya, belong to the 6th Music Chakra (heart Chakra) is the feeling and
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Dhira Shankara Bharanam
Aarohanam: S R₂ G₃ M₁ P D₂ N₃ Ṡ Avarohanam: Ṡ N₃ D₂ P M₁ G₃ R₂ S 29th Melakarta rāga, Glorified as \”Sarva Gamaka Maaṇika Rakti Rāgaṃ\” s r g m g g g .