Kokilapriya

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sridhar_ranga
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Post by sridhar_ranga »

Heard a really fine effort by KJ Yesudas yesterday in this Ragam, the kriti taken up was Dasarathe Dayasaradhe. Would like to hear more on this Raga from our highly knowledgeable members. Thanks in advance.

vasanthakokilam
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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Karnatik.com mentions this:

Melakartha 11: kOkilapriyaa S R1 G2 M1 P D2 N3 S - S N3 D2 P M1 G2 R1 S

So, it is thodi on the pUrvAngA and Shankarabaranam in the uttarAngA.

I do not know this raga but it sounds like a great combination to weave some great gamaka rich melodies around the G M P D area.

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Found a couple of links from MIO.

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/p/x/S4K ... As1NMvHdW/ Balachandar

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/p/x/m4x ... As1NMvHdW/ Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana,

Not quite what I guessed in terms of the pradhanam being in the overlapping region of the pUrvAnga and uttarAngA but interesting nonetheless.
It has flashes of Dhanyasi in Nookala's rendition, I thought.

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Post by keerthi »

The dikshitar song in this rAga is KodandarAmam anisham - only the name they use is 'KokilAravam'
DAsarathe dayAsaradhe is thyAgaraja's fine piece, of which there is a commercial tape by KVN. He has also rendered MAnAyatha-manjula - The composition of J.C.Wodeyar in this raga. the latter can be found on Sangeethapriya.
The Malladi brothers and Hyderabad brothers revel in expansive renditions of Kokilapriya; and there is a commercial record of the Hyde brothers' RTP Kokilapriya sung at the academy.

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Post by sridhar_ranga »

Thanks a bunch VK and Keerthi
Last edited by sridhar_ranga on 27 Dec 2008, 23:32, edited 1 time in total.

vijay
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Post by vijay »

I was struggling with this raga for almost a week but never quite got the hang of it. haven't heard any krithis though.

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Post by vasanthakokilam »

Thanks Keerthi for the song references.

Found links to the songs you mention in sangeethapriya.

kOdandarAmam ( kokilAravam )

http://sangeethamshare.org/murthy/031-D ... di-TNS.mp3 ( TNS )

http://sangeethamshare.org/sunil/gurugu ... i--TRS.mp3 ( TRS )

DAsarathe dayAsaradhe (kokilapriya )

http://sangeethamshare.org/sunil/thyaga ... aresan.mp3

ManayataManjula ( kokilapriya )

http://sangeethamshare.org/murthy/162-K ... odeyar.mp3

Malladi RTP ( kokilapriya )

http://sangeethamshare.org/hariharan/94 ... apriya.mp3


It is hard to tear oneself away from thinking of Thodi when listenining to DAsarathe dayAsaradhe and Dhanyasi when listening to Kodandaramam ( mainly the pallavi ). But as is the template with many CM songs, the anupallavi traverses to uttaranga and a different personality emerges. But it is a case of dual personality emerging one after the other.

In the Wodeyar piece, interestingly, the pallavi itself brings out a new integrated personality of the shankarabarana and the thodi rasas. Very interesting.

ramakriya
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Post by ramakriya »

There is a very nice recording of dASarathE dayASaradhe by Sri U Srinivas on Mandolin. Perhaps on a Music Today series release.

-Ramakriya

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Post by ramakriya »

keerthi wrote:The dikshitar song in this rAga is KodandarAmam anisham - only the name they use is 'KokilAravam'
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Kokilarava definitely has very strong usage of Vakra prayogas, distinguishing it from Kokilapriya, IMO.

-Ramakriya

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Post by keerthi »

I agree, Kokilaravam has distinct prayogas; but over the last half century or more, there has been a definite tendency of musicians to not adhere too closely to the Asampoorna mela's swara patterns ,both while singing alapa/swara and while rendering the krthi itself.
The calcutta school of dikshitar's disciplic lineage, for instance, sings Swetaganapathim in Ragachudamani's sampUrna version Ragavardhini.Also rasamanjari and Rasikapriya. I have heard renditions of the Stavaraja song in Shadvidhamargini, of ChAmaram songs in Shanmukhapriya and so on, even from students of the erstwhile central college of carnatic music, where Chittoor, Sandhyavandanam et al held sway.
TNS sings kodandaramam with ragam and kalpanaswaras in the sampUrna form.

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Post by Christian Kenit Ram »

Bhatiyari Todi is a hindustani raga which fits into this scale/mela .
Oceanofragas has some of the lakshanas of it , which the webmaster has probably taken from a grantha of Pt Manikbuwa Thakurdas .
Unfortunately I can not find any audio .

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