Kalpana Swara

girip1979 · Post by **girip1979** » 28 Aug 2008, 17:08

Hi All,

I am new to this forum. I am learning Carnatic Music.

Kindly do let me know how can i master "singing Kalpana swara", "Neraval", "Alaapana".

Any reference to books/cds/articles would also be helpful.

Regards,
-Giri.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 29 Aug 2008, 08:20

Refer to the thread on Kalpana Swaram at http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=777
and on Neraval at http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=5508

here is an article on Alapana http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/alapana.html
and a general article on Manodharma aspects http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/ ... ation.html

I must emphasise that once you understand the concepts that listening to lots of renditions of alapana, neraval and swaram is the best way to learn. Shivkumar's manodharma archive will be of use here: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivk ... index.html

girip1979 · Post by **girip1979** » 29 Aug 2008, 09:29

Thanks a lot Mohan for the information. I shall go through the links provided by you
-Giri.

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 29 Aug 2008, 23:55

You can also get some ideas from Sanjay Subrahmanyan in the following podcast

http://sanjaysub.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=364445#