Shakti Sahita Ganapatim

[puru00047]

As i find this forum empty, lets start it with a Ganesha Song.
Can u find any history behind thsi Great lullaby from the great MSD.

prasanna fan
puru

[rajumds]

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[harimau]

As i find this forum empty, lets start it with a Ganesha Song.
Can u find any history behind thsi Great lullaby from the great MSD.

prasanna fan
puru

The real history is that these nottuswara sahithyas were written by Sri Muthuswami Deekshithar during his stay in Manali after listening to the British Army band play some Western airs in Fort St. George. He composed Sanskrit sahithyas for the tunes that he heard.

But given that Sri Deekshithar was able to foretell the future (he was a good astrologer; he is supposed to have written the Navagraha krithis after discovering that his disciple Thambiappan's abdominal pain was caused by the malefic influence of Jupiter according to Thambiappan's horoscope), it is not entirely out of line to think that he foresaw the use of trumpets, Saxophones, guitars, and keyboards in Carnatic music and so decided to provide a corpus of music to which those practitioners of such instruments could confine themselves.

Let us hope that there is some malevolent curse associated with playing any other Deekshithar compositions on such instruments.

That is the only hope for good clean (traditional) Carnatic music!

[venkatakailasam]

"A subtle Meenakshi memudam or a chirpy Shaktisahita ganapathim? Where would you find notations and meanings for both kinds of Muthuswamy Dikshitar compositions? In Anandarama Udupa's just-released, exhaustive compilation Guruguha Gana Vaibhava".

please visit : http://www.themusicmagazine.com/dikshitbook.html


venkatakailasm

[venkatakailasam]

"venkatakailasam a chirpy Shaktisahita ganapathim? Where would you find notations and meanings for both kinds of Muthuswamy Dikshitar compositions? In Anandarama Udupa's just-released, exhaustive compilation Guruguha Gana Vaibhava".

please visit : http://www.themusicmagazine.com/dikshitbook.html


venkatakailasm

You can listen to it at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNjO1PusP9E

E'-SWARA-misc-022 -Sakthi sahitha ganapathim -sankarabaranam-nottu.flv
venkatakailasam

[puru00047]

The real history is that these nottuswara sahithyas were written by Sri Muthuswami Deekshithar during his stay in Manali after listening to the British Army band play some Western airs in Fort St. George. He composed Sanskrit sahithyas for the tunes that he heard.

But given that Sri Deekshithar was able to foretell the future (he was a good astrologer; he is supposed to have written the Navagraha krithis after discovering that his disciple Thambiappan's abdominal pain was caused by the malefic influence of Jupiter according to Thambiappan's horoscope), it is not entirely out of line to think that he foresaw the use of trumpets, Saxophones, guitars, and keyboards in Carnatic music and so decided to provide a corpus of music to which those practitioners of such instruments could confine themselves.

Let us hope that there is some malevolent curse associated with playing any other Deekshithar compositions on such instruments.

That is the only hope for good clean (traditional) Carnatic music!

Ok. After 5 years of listening to around 300 Deekshithar kritis, I believe that Deekshitar would have never written these compositions to confine the western instrumentalists. Definitely not. He foretold the future and wrote kritis that depict complex emotions of our digital age. and coming back to the western instruemnt curse, wasn't it his dear brother Baluswamy who brought the violin(a now indispensable instrument in carnatic music) to CM? If he were alive today wouldn't he be traveling around the world jamming with musicians of various genres?