Lalgudi Thillanas

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preyas
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Lalgudi Thillanas

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Can some one list the Lalgudi thillanas and their tala which are popular in the dance circuit please

Lakshman
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Re: Lalgudi Thillanas

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dhIm dhIm tanan dhiranA-vasantA-k/cApu
takadhIm tadhIm nAdhru dhIm-dEs-Adi
tom dhru dhru dhIm-bAgEshri-Adi
tom dhru dhru dAni-darbArikAnaDA-Adi
taka tahjaNu dhImta-MohanakalyANi-Adi
dhIm dhImta udana-tilang-Adi
dhIm tana dhIm jhaNuta-behAg-Adi (tisra naDai)
tatadhIm tadhIm-madhuvanti-Adi
tanana dhImta dhIm-kApi-Adi (tisra naDai)
dhIm dhIm takata jhamta-hamIrkalyANi-Adi
tanata dhIm tana dhIm-Anandabhairavi-Adi (tisra naDai)
dhIm dhIm tananana-rEvati-cApu
tanOm tana tOmta-dvIjavanti-Adi
tom dhru tAni tom dhru-kAnaDA-Adi
tanana dhirana dhim-khamAs-Adi
tadhIm tanatadhIm-yamunAkalyANi-cApu
tAm tAm taka tOm-vAsanti-cApu
dhImta taratAni-rAgEshrI-Adi
dhIm tanata dhIm-pahaDi-cApu
dhImta jhaNu jhaNuta-sindhubhairavi-Adi
tana dhImta dhImta-mAND-Adi
dhIm dhIm dhIm tattatana-hamsAnandi-Adi
dhIm dhIm dhIm tanam-karNaranjani-Adi
tatara dhIm-cenjuruTi-Adi (tisra naDai)
tana dhIm-kadanakutUhala-Adi
tanadhIm-kuntalavarALi-Adi
dhImta jhamta-bindumAlini-Adi
tanata tOmta-kalyANavasantA-k/cApu
tanOm tata-durgA-Adi
dhImta dhIm-nalinakAnti-Adi

Umesh
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Re: Lalgudi Thillanas

Post by Umesh »

Most lend themselves to dance but the popular ones by far are mohanakalyani and desh, followed in no particular order by madhuvanti, behag, tilang, rageshri, mand, bageshri, and sindhubhairavi. The mishra chapu tillanas like revati, vasanti, and pahadi are very beautiful but more difficult to dance (Leela Samson does the revati very well). I believe the vasanta tillana was his first composition ever.

preyas
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Re: Lalgudi Thillanas

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Can some one direct me to the audio or video for any of these. I could not locate them to hear them.

1. Bageshri
2. Behag

thank you

Lakshman
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Re: Lalgudi Thillanas

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The behAg tillAnA by LGJ himself is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jao6d6fcB58
The bAgEshrI tillAnA by GJR Krishnan is available here:
https://mio.to/show/Raagam/Bageshree/tracks
I could not find one by LGJ.

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