Useful websites related to Carnatic music.

[Nandy]

Hello everyone,

Got these details from Fine Arts Society, Chembur. I see that there are some websites that people already know about. Hopefully there are new ones in them which will be of use to all. Just thought I should share it.

S.No. Website / Blogs
1. http://www.ecse.rpi.edu
A very good Cranatic music archive
2 http://arvindsdad.blogspot.com
Blog-good for music collection
3 http://lokabhiramam.blogspot.com
Blog-good for music collection
4 http://satyasense.blogspot.com
Blog-good for music collection
5 http://gayathrigirish.blogspot.com
Blog-good for music collection
6 http://nadhasudharasa.blogspot.com/ blogs -music
7 http://movieraghas.blogspot.com
blogs-cinemusic
8 http://sivanpaattu.blogspot.com/ Blog-good for music collection
9 www.sangeethapriya.org - A site with over 40000 mp3s of classical music.
10 Hot Recorder (www.hotrecorder.com) m4p to mp3 convertion / you tube downloader - tried out successfully
11 luzchurch <[email protected]> - A resourceful and regular contributor in Sangeethapriaya.org , who helps rasikas who are in the look out lyrics and which are sometimes difficult to get
12 http://www.acidplanet.com
Music
13 http://www.hummaa.com
Music
14 http://www.rosemuralikrishnan.com
Music
15 http://www.swathithirunal.in
music
16 http://www.vijayadhwani.com
music
17 www.ragasurabhi.com
Music
18 http://rasikas.org
music
19 http://old.musicindiaonline.com / www.karnatik.com
Music lyrics
20 http://acharya.iitm.ac.in
Sanskrit - for learning
21 http://chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/step-by-step.htm Sanskrit - very good for learning step-by-step
22 http://www.freedownloadmanager.org
sanskrit books – free download
23 http://sanskritdocuments.org/scannedbooks/ sanskrit books – free download
24 http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com/ sanskrit books – free download
25 http://www.atmajyoti.org/spirwrit-downloads.asp sanskrit books
26 http://www.sathyasai.org
Sathya Sai related
27 http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org
Spiritual / Bhajans
28 ramachander.sulekha.com spriritual/ music/ astrologer
29 www.vedamantram.com
spriritual/ music
30 www.vediclinks.net
spriritual/ music
31 [email protected] <[email protected]> Tamil books
32 http://www.karthikeyanp.info/blog/TamilEbooks.html Tamil books
33 http://www.chennailibrary.com/ Tamil books download
34 http://www.thinnai.info/downloads.php Tamil books download
35 http://www.tamilcafe.net/tamilbooks.html Tamil books download
36 http://vijaybalajithecitizen.blogspot.com
ebooks-in tamil-for-free-download
37 http://www.tamilcollections.com
Tamil movie songs lyrics
38 www.rajshritamil.com Tamil songs
39 http://nvkashraf.co.cc/valluvar/others/virtue
Tirukural
40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS2NMeUBArs&NR=1 cd scratch remover ( not tried by me)


Thanks

Nandy.

[VK RAMAN]

bringing all website addresses in one post - great idea and thanks for the great work.

www.geetham.net seem to have been left out.

[Nandy]

bringing all website addresses in one post - great idea and thanks for the great work.

http://www.geetham.net seem to have been left out.

Hello sir,

Thanks for the update.


Nandy.

[mohan]

You can see links to hundreds of Carnatic music sites at the various pages of
www.carnaticcorner.com !

[Nandy]

Thanks Mohanji for this great link!

[mankuthimma]

http://www.musicresearch.in/contents.php
For articles and research related Issues.

If you have missed out on ALL INDIA RADIO NATIONAL PROGRAM RECITALS ( SAT AND SUNDAYS) AND
wish to catch up with these , Here is a blog where my son offers these for people exactlly like you - ones who may be living overseas or might have been engaged otherwise.

http://ourmusicalheritage.wordpress.com/

http://sursangat.com/
for Hindusthani stuff

[radha bhaskar]

you could also include http://www.samudhra.org in this list!

[Enna_Solven]

If you have missed out on ALL INDIA RADIO NATIONAL PROGRAM RECITALS ( SAT AND SUNDAYS) AND
wish to catch up with these , Here is a blog where my son offers these for people exactlly like you - ones who may be living overseas or might have been engaged otherwise.

http://ourmusicalheritage.wordpress.com/

Coolji, nice website. Convey my best wishes to your son!

[mankuthimma]

http://www.likhati.com/

There is a very educative series running now , on Abhangs , at the above site.

[laasya]

Another website of which may be of interest is http://sunaadaradio.com. Its a online radio serving both CM and HM.

[mridhangam]

www.carnaticdarbar.com

[raghukumar]

www.mycarnatic.org

[Nick H]

http://www.carnaticdarbar.com

An excellent site --- not least for Balaji's own interview

[tlananthu]

Another carnatic related site: http://carnatic-mp3.blogspot.com/

[metnanda]

Add the website on Sangeeta Kalanidhi Dr Rallapalli Anantha Krishna Sarma

http://sites.google.com/site/rallapallisharma/

regards
nandan

[eesha]

Though part of sangeethapriya.org , the below 2 need special mention:

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/svasu/ -- Daily Chennai AIR FM concerts
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/tvg/ --- Daily Chennai AM concerts and DD Podigai concerts

[carnaticlaw]

nandy,

romba useful. usefuloooo useful.

[mankuthimma]

http://www.vasumathi.net/index.asp

[venkatakailasam]

I am having the following blogs:

blogs at: 'e'-swara at http://myblogkumara.blogspot.com/ carnatic music free downloads

saieswara at http://e-swari.blogspot.com/ devotional songs free downloadsand Astrology

My postings of annamachariar songs with lyrics at

apurvaabhinayangal arts at http://apurvaabhi.blogspot.com/ / (provide annamachariar keerthanas along with lyrics both for listening and free downloads.)

875+ files at You Tube at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/vkailasam

Whether they can be categorized as useful
may have to be decided by you

venkatakailasam

[venkatakailasam]

Though part of sangeethapriya.org , the below 2 need special mention:

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/svasu/ -- Daily Chennai AIR FM concerts
http://www.sangeethamshare.org/tvg/ --- Daily Chennai AM concerts and DD Podigai concerts

Two more pillars of the above forum which needs to be mentioned in addition to above are:

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/manjunath/

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/murthy/

Their contribution is immense. Both are members of this forum also

venkatakailasam

[syamale]

Nandy,
Thank you for putting all the links at one place. Wonderful work indeed.