bhUpALam
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bhUpALam
The next time someone tells me Sriman nArAyaNa is in bhUpALam, I am going to make them listen to the real one for 1 week.
bhUpALAm goes like this :
Aro : S R1 G2 P D1 S
Avaro : S D1 P G2 R1 S where G2 is the G of SubhapantuvarALi. It is not G3 - the rAgA that uses G3 is rEvagupti
The best well known examples are from Dikshitar - sadAchalEshwaram bhAvayE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORag7qsPPNg - by Sanjay, from his own Youtube
Hopefully Sanjay won't mind this one - because it has an alapana : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3q-qUqgwYI
And here's Dr. S Ramanathan at it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1oA8pxv08
The last charaNam of Sri vishwanAtham bhajEham is in bhUpaLam and has the rAgA name in it.
bhUpALAm goes like this :
Aro : S R1 G2 P D1 S
Avaro : S D1 P G2 R1 S where G2 is the G of SubhapantuvarALi. It is not G3 - the rAgA that uses G3 is rEvagupti
The best well known examples are from Dikshitar - sadAchalEshwaram bhAvayE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORag7qsPPNg - by Sanjay, from his own Youtube
Hopefully Sanjay won't mind this one - because it has an alapana : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3q-qUqgwYI
And here's Dr. S Ramanathan at it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1oA8pxv08
The last charaNam of Sri vishwanAtham bhajEham is in bhUpaLam and has the rAgA name in it.
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Re: bhUpALam
i have also read that,
this raga can be aptly classified as janya under Hanumathodi, the 8th mela.
it is a morning raga with karuna-rasa in it.
the original gopalaka pahimam is in bhupalam as in texts, but everybody renders it in revagupthi
(any specific reason ??)
this raga can be aptly classified as janya under Hanumathodi, the 8th mela.
it is a morning raga with karuna-rasa in it.
the original gopalaka pahimam is in bhupalam as in texts, but everybody renders it in revagupthi
(any specific reason ??)
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Re: bhUpALam
Retunitis - It happened a lot more than we thought...
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when i ask such questions on returning to some people,
their reply will be: "feel happy, that the krithi or music is not frozen, but still available."
but i feel authentic-ness of that composition will be totally lost.
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Retunings are touchy things. A handful managed to surpass the original product, as an example bhAvayAmi raghurAmam, but that is assuming of course that the original version still existed. Some retunings are the results of attempts to recover the authentic versions as far as possible. Some retunings happened because the music of those times simply does not exist any more.
Other than these, there is one more type of retuning - the arbitrary one. I can't tell you how many compositions got watered down due to this.
Other than these, there is one more type of retuning - the arbitrary one. I can't tell you how many compositions got watered down due to this.
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Re: bhUpALam
deena janAvana was the only Thyagaraja kriti I could find in bhUpALam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ULK_Guf25I
It's BMK, so expect it to be light.
It's BMK, so expect it to be light.
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Bhupalam and Revaguti are twins like Vasanta-Lalitha who are frequently mistaken. In the older texts, especially texts mentioning about the kritis of Swati Tirunal, this confusion is more pronounced. They mention it as Bhupalam and the svara variety match with Revagupti. So a musician singing such a kriti in Revagupti is correct.
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Can you please explain what made you to say this statement ?It's BMK, so expect it to be light.
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I haven't forgotten that time when he sang an entire concert (including the main kalyANi) with zero gamakas and 100% rubato in the kalapanswaras (the kalapramana accelerated and slowed like a car driving on a track).
That doesn't mean I don't think he was a once in a generation genius - oh he was a different order of genius, but sometimes he was just too different.
That doesn't mean I don't think he was a once in a generation genius - oh he was a different order of genius, but sometimes he was just too different.
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Re: bhUpALam
Accepted.
If rendered with excessive gamakam which is not necessary, how will you call that as ?
If rendered with excessive gamakam which is not necessary, how will you call that as ?
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Re: bhUpALam
Bhakthi dehi,bhakthim dehi wrote: ↑31 Jan 2019, 20:31 Bhupalam and Revaguti are twins like Vasanta-Lalitha who are frequently mistaken. In the older texts, especially texts mentioning about the kritis of Swati Tirunal, this confusion is more pronounced. They mention it as Bhupalam and the svara variety match with Revagupti. So a musician singing such a kriti in Revagupti is correct.
Atleast for the lakshya trained ears Bhupalam always has a tinge of subhapantuvarali. Most of the movies which usually have an aural drop with sunrise wrongly tag that tune as bhupAlam . All along in 80's to 2004 or so till internet forum was there , i was thinking that sunrise aural flute drop is bhupalam. Till some body educated that raga is actually bowli. The confusion aurally is more in disambiguating bowli and another raga revagupti. I would see the near identical twins are only revagupti and bowli and not a bit related cousin bhupalam.
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Re: bhUpALam
You are correct.I would see the near identical twins are only revagupti and bowli and not a bit related cousin bhupalam.
I just quoted a textual reference wherein you see interchanged raga names.
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There is even a varnam by Swati Tirunal in bhUpALam. http://www.swathithirunal.in/htmlfile/274.htm