Thyagaraja (Krithis)

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SrinathK
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@RaviSri Pardon my ignorance, I have no idea what's a vIchu.

Also I still didn't get it so let me ask again. 2 counts after samam would be +1/2 eDuppu to me. More precisely, 2 notes after samam @ 4 notes / beat in 1 kalai.

I was thinking deshAdi as +1 1/2 beats after samam in 1-kalai. E.g. Eti yOchanalu. I describe a +1 1/2 eDuppu as 6 notes after samam with 4 notes in a beat OR 1 beat + 2 notes after samam with 4 notes to a beat. Am I right?

On a side note, I feel that the concept of Kalai from a metronomic point of view, is somewhat fictitious, since it is equivalent to raising the degree of speed while proportionately reducing the beats per min or the overall tempo by the same relative amount.

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1. I think what Ravisri meant to say in the case of songs like Meru samAna etc. is madhyAdi annd not deshAdi.

2. SrinathK - You are right that songs like ETi yocanAlu represent the textbook makeup of a deshAdi song. The technical disucssion sections has a longish thread, with many older discussion on the deshadi and its unique laya.

3. vichu = veesu = visarjitam = the tAlanga marked by a wave of the hand, palm facing upwards [the second unit of a drutam for example]
On a side note, I feel that the concept of Kalai from a metronomic point of view, is somewhat fictitious
4. The concept of kapha, vAta and pitta from the biochemistry view point too, will be 'fictitious'. However they are central concepts in another paradigm of biomedical science. The notion of kaLai is probably an artifact of an older system of describing the features of tAla [kalA from the tAla-dasha-prANa-s, blurred up with mArga of the same set].

Further, I disagree with the idea that kalai is merely a matter of changing the tempo of a song. counting the number of mAtra [moraic syllables] in the lines of a song will often help to determine what is to be the laya architecture; and the transgression of these principles will gives us pAthAntara-s with cluttered or unevenly strewn sAhitya [examples are aplenty]. there are differences in other features such as the arudi kArvai and other kArvais interspersed in the song, between songs of the 1 kaLai and 2 kaLai.

This is true not just for Adi tAla, but for the jhampa tigers in chApu sheep's clothing, the tripuTa-misra ekam, the rUpaka-tisra eka gaits as well.

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I didn't intend to imply that kalai is all about changing a song's tempo (though in the trinity collections you will find quite a few that went from 2 kalai to 1 kalai simply by doing this).

There is a very distinct difference between the handling of a +3/4 eduppu pause in a 1 kalai and the same eduppu in a 2 kalai (which strictly speaking has 2 versions, a) a 6/8 version with 8 notes per kriya that's similar to dEshAdi and b) a 3/4 version at a slower tempo -- this one immediately lets you know that you are in 2 kalai and not 1 kalai, especially if used at the half way point in Adi Tala). @keethi, Excuse me for using modern English in this one, but it's easiest for me.

Right now if I understand what madhyAdi means, I think Endaro is probably the only song out there still being sung out there like that, right?

And while we are at that, who introduced that spurious charanam in sAdinchanE that never caught on?

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Srinath, I think madyAdi is anything that starts between the 1st and 2nd beat. Endaro is a special case where it starts right on the 2nd beat.. right?

If I understand right, RaviSri's use of 'just before vIchu' is not from the Adi kriya point of view. He indeed is refering to desAdi songs but the Kriyas are different. We discussed this elsewhere. In that desAdi kriya scheme, the eduppu is before the vIchu. 'Before the vIchu' for desAdi does not make any sense when talked in terms of Adi. If I find the thread I will post here, or before that I am sure RaviSri will explain the original kriya for desAdi.

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I am sorry Srinath, I cannot explain using technical terms. I just know couple of songs in dEshAdi. keerthi has explained it well and I can do no better than give this link. It has Radha Viswanathan sing the Sankarabharanam thillana of Poochi in dEshAdi. I think you can understand the kriya of the talam because she has employed it clearly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWyZLKLCA8

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Thank you RaviSri, a video is worth a thousand words!

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Is it then like a Atheetha Eduppu 2 Kalai Chathusra Eka? The difference in the kriya is the first beat is a vIchu as opposed to a thattu?

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Today starts the 250th birth year of Thyagaraja. Today, 4th May is his English date of birth. Had he lived he would have completed 249 years. His actual Jayanthi is on 12th May (Poosam star). Special poojas will be held on 12th at Tiruvaiyyaru and at Varahappayyar lane, Thanjavur. Shyama Sastri's is on 7th (Krithika star).

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So then, a list of Thyagaraja krithis in dEshAdi would be quite helpful. If such a list is already here somewhere, kindly let me know. Meanwhile here are the old threads on this tala

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=828

So deshAdi and madhyAdi basically consist of : wave + beat + beat + beat . @8 notes per beat, +3/4 eDuppu in this tala or six notes from from the start is deshAdi, while +1/2 eDuppu or 4 notes from the start is madhyAdi.

When transposed into the regular Adi tAla 1 kalai @ 4 notes per beat, deshAdi will be at +1 1/2 beats from samam.

For madhyAdi, change to 2 kalai Adi tala @ 1/2 eDuppu (If you take it that each major beat should be repeated twice in 2 kalai, this will land on the 2nd repetition of the 1st major beat of the tala), which will force you to repeat every line 2x to fit into the tala cycle.

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Here is the list:
Ananda sAgara mIdani. rAgA: garuDadhvani. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
AnandamAnandamAyenu. rAgA: bhairavi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
bAgayanayya nI mAya lentO bramhakaina. rAgA: candrajyOti. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
baNTu rIti kolu viyavayya rAma. rAgA: hamsanAda. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
bhuvini dAsuDanE pErAsacE. rAgA: shrIranjani. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
calamElarA sAkEtarAmA. rAgA: mArgahindOLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
cEra rAvadEmirA rAmayya. rAgA: rItigauLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
cinna nADE nA ceyi baTTitivE. rAgA: kalAnidhi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
daridApulEka vEDitE. rAgA: sAvEri. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
dEvAdi dEva sadAshiva dInanAtha. rAgA: sindhurAmakriyA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
dvaitamu sukhamA advaitamu sukhamA. rAgA: rItigauLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
EdAri sancarinturA ika balkarA. rAgA: kAntAmaNi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
EmandunE vicitramunu ilalOna manuju lADEdi. rAgA: shrImaNi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
enduku nirdaya evarunnArurA. rAgA: harikAmbhOji. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
enduku peddala vale buddhi iyavu endu. rAgA: shankarAbharaNa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
enta bhAgyamu mApAla galgEtivi evvarIdu. rALA: sAranga. dEshAdi tALA
enta nErcina enta jUcina enta. rAgA: udayaravicandrikA. dEshAdi tALA
enta vEDukondu O rAghava. rAgA: sarasvatImanOhari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
EtAvuna nErcitivO rAma. rAgA: yadukulakAmbhOji. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
eTi yOcanalu cEsEvurA eduru balka. rAgA: kiraNAvaLi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
evaraina lErA peddalu ilalOna dInula. rAgA: siddhasEnA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
evaritO nE delpudu rAma nAlOni jAlini. rAgA: mAnavati. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
evvarE rAmayya nI sari. rAgA: gAngEyabhUSaNi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
giripai nelakonna rAmuni guri dappaga kaNTi. rAgA: shahAnA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
girirAja sutA tanaya sadaya. rAgA: bangALa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
gItArthamu sangItAnandamu nI tAvuna jUDarA. rAgA: suraTi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
graha balam Emi shrI rAmAnugraha balamE. rAgA: rEvagupti. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kaDatEra rAdA manasA. rAgA: tODi. dEshAdi. Tyagaraja.
kaLala nErcina munu jEsinadi gAka Emi aravai. rAgA: dIpaka. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kalinarulaku mahimalu delipi Emi. rAgA: kuntalavarALi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kamalApta kula kalashAbdhi candra. rAgA: brndAvanasAranga. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kanna taNDri nApai karuNa mAnakE gAsi. rAgA: dEvamanOhari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kaNTa jUDumi oka pAri krE. rAgA: latAngi / vAcaspati. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
kanugoNTini shrI rAmuni nEDu. rAgA: bilahari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mA jAnaki ceTTa beTTaga. rAgA: kAmbhOji. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
madilOna yOcana. rAgA: kOlAhala. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mAkElarA vicAramu. rAgA: ravicandrikA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
manasulOni marmamu. rAgA: hindOLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
manavi nAlaginca. rAgA: nalainakAnti. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mariyAda gAdayya. rAgA: bhairava. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
marugElarA O. rAgA: jayantashrI. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mATADavEmi nAtO. rAgA. nIlAmbari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mEnu jUci mOsa bOkavE. rAgA: sarasAngi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
mEru samAna. rAgA: mAyAmALavagauLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
munupE teliyaka. rAgA: bangALa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nA moralanu vini emara. rAgA: Arabhi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nAdOpAsanace. rAgA: bEgaDa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nAma kusumamulacE. rAgA: shrI. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nannu brOva nIkinta. rAgA: abhOgi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nannukanna talli. rAgA: kEsari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nenaruncarA nApaini. rAgA: simhavAhini. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nenaruncinAnu annTiki. rAgA: mALavi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nEramA rAma. rAgA: saurASTra. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nI cittamu nA. rAgA: vijayavasanta. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nI dAsAnudAsuDa. rAgA: hamIrkalyANi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nI dayacE rAma. rAgA: yadukulakAmbhOji. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
nijamuga nI mahimalu. rAgA: shahAna. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
paluku kaNDa. rAgA: navarasakannaDa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
parAku nI kElarA rAma. rAgA: kiraNAvaLi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
paralOka bhayamu. rAgA: mandAri. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
paralOka sAdhanamE. rAgA: pUrvikalyANi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
prANanAtha birAna. rAgA: shUlini. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
rAga sudhArasa pAnamu. rAgA: AndOLikA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
raghunandana rAjamOhana. rAgA: shuddhadEshi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
rAmacandra nI daya. rAgA: suraTi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sAkSi lEdanucu. rAgA: bangALa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
samukhana nilva. rAgA: kOkilavarALi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sanAtana parama pAvana. rAgA: phalamanjari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sandEhamunu dIrpumayya. rAgA: rAmapriyA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sangIta shAstra. rAgA: sALagabhairavi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sarasa sAma dAna. rAgA: kApinArAyaNi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sarasIruhAnana rAma. rAgA: mukhAri. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sarijEsi vEDuka. rAgA: tIvravAhini. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sarivArilOna cauka. rAgA: bhinnaSaDja. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sari evvarE shrI jAnaki. rAgA: shrIranjani. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sArvabhauma sAkETa. rAgA: rAgapanjaramu. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
shrI jAnakI manOhara. rAgA: IshamanOhari. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
shrI mAnini manOhara. rAgA: pUrNaSaDjam. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
shrIkAnta nIyeDa. rAgA: bhavapriyA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sItApati nA manasuna. rAgA: khamAs. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
smaraNE sukhamu. rAgA: janaranjani. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sogasu jUDa taramA. rAgA: kannaDagauLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
sukhi evarO rAma nAma. rAgA: kAnaDa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
tanamIda nE. rAgA: bhUSAvaLi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
tanavAri tanamu. rAgA: bEgaDa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
teliyalEru rAma. rAgA: dhEnukA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vAcAmagOcaramE. rAgA: kaikavashi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vara rAga layagnulu. rAgA: cencukAmbhOji. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vErevvarE gati. rAgA: suraTi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vidulaku mrokkEda. rAgA: mAyAmALavagauLa. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vina nAshakoni. rAgA: pratApavarALi. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vina rAdA nA manavi. rAgA: dEvagAndhAri. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
vinatA suta vAhana. rAgA: jayantasEnA. dEshAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.


rAma kathA sudhArasa. rAgA: madhyamAvati. madhyAdi tALA. Tyagaraja.
rAma nIyeDa prEma. rAgA: kharaharapriyA. madhyadi tALA. Tyagaraja.

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This is an interesting discussion. BTW can we get any links to one of these krithis sung in proper desadi and changed version for comparison. Just to understand for musical illiterates like me. Thanks.

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V Sriram is giving info on Thuagaraja under Thyagaraja250 in his tweets.

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For madhyAdi, change to 2 kalai Adi tala @ 1/2 eDuppu (If you take it that each major beat should be repeated twice in 2 kalai, this will land on the 2nd repetition of the 1st major beat of the tala), which will force you to repeat every line 2x to fit into the tala cycle.
Actually the opposite, it is likely that madhyAdi was devised to accommodate the repetition of lines [half-lines rather] in a fashion such that each syllable falls on the same tAlanga for each repetition or sangati. People who sing mEru-samAna, rAmakathA-sudhA-rasa-pAnamu, rAma-bANa-trANa-shauryam or giripai nelakonna, while reckoning the usual 2 kaLai adi tAla will notice that every odd numbered repetition of the phrase 'mEru-samana' falls on a laghu while every even numbered repetition falls on the pair of druta-s.

Based on the tacit rule of Carnatic tradition of singing the krti, pallavi, svarakalpana and neraval that 'the sahitya syllables must occupy a fixed position'; it is untenable that ru of mEru occurs on the 14th akSara of Adi tAla for the first time, and on the 46th akSara in the next repetition. So if the style of reckoning the tAla [the kriyA] is of the madhyAdi type, there is a consistency in the position of the sAhitya syllables with regard to their position in the tAla.

I suspect that Lakshman-ji's list gives all madhyAdi-s as deshAdi. and there are instances like the sarasAngi song which has madhyAdi as well as deshAdi pAThAntarams.

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#Tyagaraja250 - 61. His opera Prahlada Bhakti Vijayam has songs in ragas that he has not used otherwise - paras & ghaNTa are examples.
Courtesy Sriram Venkatakrishnan.

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This is right only as far as paras is concerned. In ghanta, Thyagaraja has composed many songs, especially the major gAravimparAdA, perugu pAlu etc. He ha composed even a mangalam in ghanta.

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keerthi wrote:Based on the tacit rule of Carnatic tradition of singing the krti, pallavi, svarakalpana and neraval that 'the sahitya syllables must occupy a fixed position';
Is this that sacrosanct? - this used to be a TMT rule of neraval singing ( heard from some of his students).

Does this allow odukkals and tempo rubatos?

Lot of fun in Carnatic music will be gone if this is so strict. I would demand what could be called a mAtra integrity to the composition , but not an exactitude. If two people cannot execute gamakas on the frequency scale in the same way - depending on their felicity of their Sruti control or manodharmam - I would say two people should be free to move syllables on the time scale differently as well based on their felicity of laya control as long as a certain mAtra integrity ( to the original pATam) is maintained and tAla's kriyas are acknowledged for their presence subtly albeit not emphatically.

viSranti speaks not just through a gamaka, but also through a layaka!

So goes my principle of equivalence based on my GUT theory of carnatic music :!: :idea: :ugeek:

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Is this that sacrosanct? - this used to be a TMT rule of neraval singing ( heard from some of his students).
Does this allow odukkals and tempo rubatos?
I think we must make a distinction between the shift of half an akSara or rarely one akSara that happens in rubato-s and a shift of 16 akSara-s, which happens when you sing a madhyAdi song in Adi tAlam 2 kaLai.

Personally, I am all for the rubato type sangatis that were sung by intrepid musicians like TRS, Voleti and Balasaraswathi. There are even some compositions wherein a traditional sangati incorporates such a shift - the TiruppAmburam version of Dorakuna for example, the penultimate sangati extends beyond the tAla Avarta to 2 akSaras of the next sangati, which has a 2 akSaram eDuppu instead of a sama eDuppu.

Such incremental shifts are also seen in top quality pallavi singing, where occasionally every sAhityAkSara is shifted by 1/2 akSara and the effect is thrilling. These shifts - both premeditated and manodharma - are of great aesthetic value and I find them beautiful and exciting, but surely it can't be compared to singing meru samAna or upacAramulanu once on the laghu and once on the two drutams. That is stretching the definition of odukkal.

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Keerthi - understood - I was only referring to TMT's intransigence on syllable positions of compositions ( kopiShtan as SSI refers to him apparently).

A prevailing example will be rAga sudha rasa - whose pallavi lines make one think that it is 2-kaLai 3/4 eddupu ( as it spans 4 AvartAs in 1-kaLai) - only to be confused when AP and carNam come along. But I presume it is uniformly sung in 1-kaLai.

Would that be the template for others?

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RaviSri wrote:As for "vAsudevayani", yes, this song was changed by GNB. The original version is different. I have learnt the original version which is a lot better than GNB's. The original version starts as 'PMPDNSS' and also is slower. An old group in Trichy, the Sadguru Samajam also used to sing the original way. I have heard that Vedavalli's version is also similar, i.e., different from GNB's.
Why did GNB change the tune of Vasudevayani? And is the other version available online now?

Speaking of changes how did musicians even get the IDEA to change the songs? And how was it that their changed tunes REPLACED the originals?

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RaviSri, this is not fair. :D ;) You promised to share your versions of these and other krithis that you learned from Brinda-Mukta. In the absence of Brinda Mukta and available recordings and for us rasikas far away from live sources, we have only you to turn to.

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Suryasriram wrote:
RaviSri wrote:As for "vAsudevayani", yes, this song was changed by GNB. The original version is different. I have learnt the original version which is a lot better than GNB's. The original version starts as 'PMPDNSS' and also is slower. An old group in Trichy, the Sadguru Samajam also used to sing the original way. I have heard that Vedavalli's version is also similar, i.e., different from GNB's.
Why did GNB change the tune of Vasudevayani? And is the other version available online now?

Speaking of changes how did musicians even get the IDEA to change the songs? And how was it that their changed tunes REPLACED the originals?
This was one of the points touched by T L Sharma without mentioning the name of the Artiste. He sung the original version too.
He performed few other krithis' old version also in his Lec Dem y'day at karnatic music forum program.
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Can you mention the songs which Sri Sharma sung yesterday, I mean the old versions.
Even Nayana Pillai, guru of Chittoor Subrahmanya Pillai has changed few songs. The present version of bantu reethi is attributed only to him.

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Shri bakthim dehi,
The following pieces were in his Demo. Songs were with different patantharam/ [ may be ] Old version
Thulasi jagajanani Saveri
NIthi chala sukhama Kalyani
Theradeeyaka Radha Gowlipantu

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Thank you Sri. Thanjavooran.
Nithi chala sukhama, by any chance, started with nishadam?

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Smt Sakuntala Narsimhan has recorded about 15 songs of Thyagaraja sung according to the Tillaistanam pATAntaram. Songs like bAlE bAlEndu bhUShaNi (rItIgauLa), evvarE rAmayyA (gAngEyabhUShaNi), chitra ratna maya (karaharapriyA), vAchAmagOcharamE (kaikavashi) are special and different from the usual versions. The other songs too are of excellent quality. The rItigauLa song uses the D1 as is the actual tradition. Listen to this recording which the musician has sung along with explanations too. Valuable, useful and rare too. There is practically none else now who can sing songs in this version.

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/tvg/UPLO ... ja-Part-1/
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/tvg/UPLO ... ja-Part-2/

Thanks are due to TV Gopalakrishnan for uploading this valuable programme.

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Yes....very interesting programme. But almost all the krithis excluding a few were notated in the book "Sri Thyagaraja krithis - Thillaisthanam version" by Sri Parthasarathi. She could have selected some new songs so that we would have got an opportunity to look into their repertoire.
Also she mentioned, Saranga in their version takes the phrase sgr.

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vgvindan wrote:tyAgarAja kRti 'kRpAlavAla' - nAda varAngiNi has been posted in our wiki -
http://www.rasikas.org/wiki/kripalavala-kaladhara

This kRti deals with the temptations of siddhis for those on the path of liberation. This has been dealt with along with references.

I invite your comments.
Has anyone heard a rendition of this song other than by Sri M. Balamuralikrishna, which is in a commercial album?

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I listened to Kaikavashi by MS Subbalakshmi, and Balamurali. They are significantly different, though it is the same song - Vachamago. The difference is as follows:

The scale is like this S R2 G2 M2 P D3 N3 S and S N3 P M2 G2 R2 S.

When MS sings, she does not use D3 at all, and it sounds pretty much like Dharmavati.

When Balamurali sings, he only slightly uses N3, and mostly D3, and the flavour is much more like the parent ragam Nitimati.

Has anyone observed this difference? Would love to hear your thoughts.

For Balamurali, it is this link - https://www.sangeethamshare.org/sreeniv ... lavi_1978/

For MS, it is this link - https://www.sangeethamshare.org/sunil/t ... o/krithis/

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Gerry_Gerry wrote: 04 Aug 2017, 23:04 I listened to Kaikavashi by MS Subbalakshmi, and Balamurali. They are significantly different, though it is the same song - Vachamago. The difference is as follows:

The scale is like this S R2 G2 M2 P D3 N3 S and S N3 P M2 G2 R2 S.

When MS sings, she does not use D3 at all, and it sounds pretty much like Dharmavati.

When Balamurali sings, he only slightly uses N3, and mostly D3, and the flavour is much more like the parent ragam Nitimati.

Has anyone observed this difference? Would love to hear your thoughts.

For Balamurali, it is this link - https://www.sangeethamshare.org/sreeniv ... lavi_1978/

For MS, it is this link - https://www.sangeethamshare.org/sunil/t ... o/krithis/
Here is a version by Mahavidwan Sandhyavandanam Srinivasa Rao - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOjCk0oI8o

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It is probably because she used this scale from pAlaiyAzhi for the song:
kaikavashi--59--S R G M P N S--S N P M G R S--p--T.A.Sambandamurti

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Gerry_Gerry wrote: 04 Aug 2017, 23:04Vachamago.
That sounds suspiciously like pEsAma pO.....:lol:

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Here is a version by Mahavidwan Sandhyavandanam Srinivasa Rao - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOjCk0oI8o
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I listened to this. It is the same as MS's version. No D3. Hence either the scale definition is wrong or the singers are wrong. Both cant be right. In case D3 is there and I could not find it, please tell me where in this video of Sandhyavandanam.

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This is Prof SRJ's version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2RL9l4KwU4

As usual, BMK stands out :) I like both versions!

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Lexicons mention Kaikavashi as a janya of Neethimathi and having shatshruthi dhaivatham.

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I don't know which lexicons you are referring to but in both Ragapravaham and Paliyazhi, Kaikavashi is placed under melas 21, 59 and 60.

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Sangraha Chudamani and Sangeetha Sara Sangrahamu says Kaikavashi is a janya of mela 60.
By the way, is Palaiyazhi is a lexicon? Who Is the author?

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Hi,

Can anybody send the notation of Tulasi Bilwa,Kedara Gowla,Adi in English that would be helpful.
I heard that krithi in AmruthaVenkatesh concert video.

Email: vanimakkapati@gmail.com

Thanks in advance
Srivani

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vanimakkapati: Please post your request in the Identification/Translations thread. Thanka.

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I have a question to esteemed Rasikas in the group. Having seen amazing research from Ravisri and others, I am sure some interesting insights will emerge.
It is about some of the Kshethras that Thyagaraja must have visited but no Krithis seems to exist. It is well known that Thyagaraja believed in ' Koti Nadulu Dhanush Kotilo nundaka " , so he did not go on Thirtha yantra as such. Except the the sojourn to Tirupathi, covering Sri rangam , Kanchipuram and few more on the way.

1) Did Thyagaraja sing on the deities of Tiruvarur ? Though there is a controversy that if it is his real place of birth, definitely it I was his mothers place. He must have visited. He has visited Nagapattinam, and must have gone via Tiruvarur.

2) Thyagaraja seem to have visited the places of his Sishya's at their request. He has visited and sung at Lalgudi, Walajapet,etc.
What about Thillaisthanam ? His favourite Sishya Rama Iyengar must have invited him.Thillaisthanam is also not too far, hardly two kilometers from Tiruvaiyar.

3) what about Tiruvanaikkaval ? Having been at Srirangam for few weeks ,so close to Tiruvanaikkaval, Did he not visit ?

4) What about Sri Rama temples/ Sannidhis ? Even Dikshithar has sung on Rama at Srirangam ( Sri Ranga pure vihara ). What about Thyagaraja ? Did he visit Thillai vilagam ? Did he not visit Ramaswamy temple at Kumbakonam , so near Thiruvaiyar and again on the way to Thiruvarur/ Nagapattinam ?

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hough there is a controversy that if it is his real place of birth, definitely it I was his mothers place. He must have visited.
There is no real controversy here. It was B.M.Sundaram who started this so called controversy on the basis of a kriti of Manambuchavadi Venkatasubbayya who was a cousin of Thyagaraja but 30 years younger to the composer. There is also a spurious song attributed to Thyagaraja and sung by Balamurali in which the composer (?) says that he was bron in Tiruvayyaru. BMS being BMK's discviple obviously will only parrot what his gur sang. Walajapet Venkataramana Bhagavatar and Thanjavur Rama Rao wrote the life story of Thyagaraja after consulting the composer's father Rama Brahmam and have written that Thyagaraja was born in Tiruvarur.

There is son of Thyagaraja in Saurashtram, 'dEva rAma mahA dEva rAma rAghavA' which is supposed to be in praise of the Lord of Tiruvarur. The mudra comes in the lasst line, 'nishanka rasika tyAgarAja.. dEva RAma...' We can't be sure. It does not matter that he did not compose on various kShEtras like Tiruvarur, Tiruvanaikkaval, etc. He must certainly have visited them.

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Image"The painting is good. But i remember to have seen it in some other context where, thyagayya invites SriRama. But when Rama arrives, Thyagayya doesnot see him but his wife has a great darshan.".
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May I know which kruthi of Thyagaraja is associated with this picture?


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#318-> I have benefited by the link given . However, it does not give a clue to my pointed question. Thanks nevertheless

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V Sriram (brilliant music historian )writeup on sadguru thyagaja possessions ,dated May 04,2018 from The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/m ... 759797.ece

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The first song of Tyagaraja to find a place in Cinema was ‘enta nErcina’ rendered by T.P. Rajalakshmi in the first Tamil sound movie ‘Kalidas’ of 1931.

Can anyone give the audio link to this ?

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Thyagaraja Swami is said to have composed ( both lyrics and music) to nearly 700 kritis.
At present, there are two great sites for reference.
1) Sri.V.Govindan's Thyagaraja Vaibavam which gives all the kritis arranged in alphabetical order , ragam information and meaning and lyrics
2) Another wonderful site by Sangeethapriya devoted entirely to Thyagaraja kritis. It can be sorted by ragam name.
http://www.sangeethapriya.org/tributes/ ... ithis.html
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Is there any other site which gives the kritis in each ragam, arranged alpahbetically by ragam and numbered? For example, I would like to get all the kritis in some ragam like toDi.
Kindly share any such site please.

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.Songs in Todi by Tyagaraja:

Aragimpave palaragimpave
Brindavanalola govinda aravinda nayana
Chesinadella marachitivo o rama rama
Dachchuko valena dasharathi nidu daya
Dasharathi ni runamu dirpa na tarama parama
Dorakunayani surula dora vedalenu ganare
Emani mataditivo rama evari manasu evidhamo
Emi jesite nemi shri ramasvami karuna leni
Endu daginado idaku ra nannedudaya vachchura
Enduku dayaradura shri ramachandra ni
Evaru teliyaka boyyeru ni mahimalu
Gati nivani ne kori vachchiti talli paraka
Hariyanuvani sariyevvare hariyuvani sari
Kadatera rada manasa
Kaddanu variki kaddu kaddani morala nidu
Karuna judavamma kamalavairi kaladharuni
Koluvamaregada kodandapani
Koti nadulu dhanushkotilo nundagaetiki tirigedave
Munnu ravana badha norvaka vibhishanudu
Ne morabettite madilona ni kayasamelara
Ni daya ravalegaka nenenta vadanu rama
Ninnu vina sukhamu gana niraja nayana
Nivanti daivamu shadanana ne nendu ganara
Proddu poyenu shri ramuni buni bhajimpave manasa
Raju vedale jutamu rare kasturi ranga
Re manasa chintaya shri ramam
Rukalu padivelunna cheredu nukalu gatigani o
Sada bhajimpave sadashivuni samukhamuna nilachi
Tappi bratiki po tarama rama kalilo
Varidhi niku vandana monarincheda (daru)
Vedalenu kodandapani anuja saumitri gudi

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Sri.Lakshnan_ji, Thank you. . I could count 31 kritis in your list. Will soon prepare a table . May I have similar list of kritis in ragams ---karaharapriya, harikambodhi, sankarabaranam? ( ofcourse, seoparately...one by one) Thank you

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RSR wrote: 25 Dec 2017, 01:07 May I know which kruthi of Thyagaraja is associated with this picture?
its is bala kanakamaya chela(ela ni daya radu) -krithi in athana ragam

story behind this krithi is told here:

Smt. Vishaka Hari - Tyagaraja Charitram [Indian Classical Music Discourse] @ 32:10 mins

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