Online tool to listen to arohanama and avarahonama of a raag

[chitra0828]

Hi: I'm a beginner rasika of carnatic music, and at this stage in my life (after a bunch of carnatic and hindustani vocal training) I would like to teach myself some kritis. In general I can figure out the raga arohanam and avarohanam using a known kriti as guide, but it would be SOOOO useful if there was a website/blog where I could click on a raga and listen to the arohanam and avarohanam. Does anyone know if there is any such site/blog that is freely available? Thanks Chitra

[sramaswamy]

Chitra

This is not exactly what you are looking for and pardon me if you are already aware of this.

The following link contains brief alapana and a short song in that raga for about 75 ragas by Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan.

Ragas Through Pallavis by Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan

[karthikbala]

"Listen & Learn - 72 Melakartas" is an album by Charulatha Mani and Sikkil Gurucharan, where arohana, avarohana of all melakartas are sung.

raaga.com has the tracks, numbered by melakarta:
http://www.raaga.com/channels/carnatic/ ... +Mani.html

[Vijayakumar]

please visit www.ragasurabhi.com to find Aro-avaro for about 70+ ragas and still updated every week. Please post your comments in the blog out there.

[Nick H]

It's great! I've posted more fully on the thread you devoted to the site

http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 76#p159676

[Sam Swaminathan]

Chitra

The following site is extremely comprehensive to provide with the guidance you require.

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivk ... index.html

Sam

[vasanthakokilam]

For the sake of completeness: For those who have an iPhone, iTouch or iPad, there is a free app called iRaagamLite which is a melakartha chart application ( http://www.appstorehq.com/iraagamlite-iphone-48100/app ). It plays the arohana/avarohana of melakarthas and selected janya ragas.