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drshrikaanth
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ramakriya wrote:In folk songs - it is not a digital 0 or 1 :lol: I am aware of the anyaswara uses in pahADi. Even though I did not write pahADi, ;) it is possible for someone to come to that conclusion based on a film song they have heard in pahADi!
In some case both 0 and 1 may be right but 2 will certainly be wrong :D "konkaNa sutti mailarakke hOda hAge" :lol:

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Post by shripathi_g »

Shrikanthji,

Could you upload the whole/part of the Brindavana Saranga clip?

Thanks,

Sripathi

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ksrimech wrote:I did indeed hear annamAchar's rA rA chinnannA. Actually, when I had downloaded the clips, I randomly clicked on one of the clips. I turned out to be the jhanjhUTi piece and you know for a moment, I was fooled that it was Smt MS singing rA rA chinnannA. But 3 or 4 seconds later I got to listen to some other stuff.
Any pointers to a recording of this annamayya sankIrtane rA rA chinnannA ?

-Ramakriya

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drshrikaanth wrote:gOdArOri cinnadi
http://surasa.net/cgi-bin/plist.cgi?sit ... darori.mp3
Sounds like the revenge of all the scorned heroines depicted in traditional jAvaLIs...:P

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Post by Lakshman »

have the scores for quiz # 4 been posted?

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Post by Suji Ram »

ksrimech wrote:Please answer my previous question on maNirangu/Sri/madhymAvathy/brindAvana sAranga. Thank you.
There is a lecdem 1 by TMK on sangeethapriya site covering SrI/MadhymAvati /manirangu.

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Post by drshrikaanth »

Now for the much awaited scores of this round

No one has scored full 20 marks this time too

Ramakriya, with 19, has scored the highest. Congrats!

Others' scores are ammamaha-9, jignyaasa-16, lakshman-14, Vasya10- 9, gdg-13, Venkatpv-16, Arunk-16, rasam- 15, SahanaVasud-15, Sripathi_g- 15, ksrimech-18, rbharath-16, vijay-16, vrbadri-17, rajeshnat-16, shanks-13, Sridevi-9, Jayaram-16,
suji Ram-15 & Mohan-18

Great performance all of you! Keep it up!

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Post by jayaram »

Ok Ramakriya, I have finally decided to accept your offer to team up with me! :)

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Post by mohan »

Well done again Ramakriya and others!

DRS, I was wondering how many people got confused between Darbar and Nayaki?

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Post by ramakriya »

Thanks Jayaram , Sure :) This has been a good round for all of us!

In the clippings DRS gave darbAru and nAyaki were very well seperated and easily recognizable IMO..

-Ramakriya
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Post by drshrikaanth »

Rajesh
There is no N3 in the Fok 4- jhanjUTi clip I posted. So SankarAbharaNa is out of question.

GMG- GRMG- S,SS,-RD#- P#D#,- S,SS- SR,GGR,- RMGGRR,- RMGGRR,- RMGGRRS- SRRGRRS

Arunk- Although the swara sancAras can ook like erukula kAmbOdhi, the tempo/pace and lilt point only in the jhanjUTi direction.

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Folk 5 - mAyadantha maLe bantaNNa madagadakerege- angaiyaShtu mODanAgi bhUmi tUkada gALi bIsi- guDugi gUDAgi cellidaLO gangavva tAyi

A very nice kannaDa folk song. You can lsiten to it here (5th one)

http://www.udbhava.com/udbhava/songs.jsp?id=17

The rAga is vakuLAbharaNa.The range in the clip is from mandra niShAda to madhya dhaivata. There is no N3 which rules out nAtharAmakriya or MMgauLa.

The niShAda of nAdanAmakriya(As it is called today) is typical. The occasional N2 occurs only in the madhya sthAyi, not mandra sthAyi.

S,RPMP-GMGRS,-SNN,- SRG,RSS,S;;, |
MMPPP,- DD,PP,-MMP- PPD-MMPPP, |
MMM,MP-GMG-RSN- SS,- RR,-GMGR,S- S,S;, |

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Post by SahanaVasud »

Hi everyone,

I identified folk 5 as Keeravani as I heard only Keeravani.
We get Keervani if we take "Pa" of Vakulabharanam as "Sa", isn't it?

Sahana.

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Thanks DRS
That was just a melodious and intoxicating folk song! Is it possible to give a gist if the song?

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cmlover wrote:Thanks DRS
That was just a melodious and intoxicating folk song! Is it possible to give a gist if the song?
This tells a folk tale about the rain filling a man-made lake ( madagada kere), one of the largest in Karnataka.

Here is an audio link: It is the second song from the bottom, in the list.

http://www.kannadaaudio.com/Songs/Folk/ ... haMale.php


-Ramakriya
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drshrikaanth wrote:Folk 1 is bAgOrambA an Assamese folk song. Listen to it here

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/p/x/rUb ... As1NMvHdW/

The rAga of the song is mOhana or dEvakriya/SuddhasAvEri depending on which we fix as the SaDja.

If you listen carefully, you can detect "yE nIlE gagan kE talE". Here the song starts on the madra pancama and rests on SaDja (bAgOram bAgOram bAgOram bA).

The part in bold falls on the SaDja. the flow goes like "P#,G,R,- P#,G,R,- P#,G,R,- S;,- P,-G,G,R,- S;;,"

But if you fix the startiNg note as SaDja, the resting note is madhyama and the rAga becomes SuddhasAvEri and the flow is "S,D,P,- S,D,P,- S,D,P,- M;,- S*,- D,D,P,- M;;,". Such ambuguity is encountered in many folk songs and therein lies the beauty.
Doc - by the same logic, could not clip no. 3 also be consrued as Mohanam instead of Madhyamavathi?

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vijay wrote:Doc - by the same logic, could not clip no. 3 also be consrued as Mohanam instead of Madhyamavathi?
vijay,

There is a difference - If there is a repeating refrain on one of the notes, then only you might fall prey to a false shaDja - and thus point to a different rAga. This does not happen always;

-Ramakriya

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Thanks Ramakriya

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SahanaVasud wrote:I identified folk 5 as Keeravani as I heard only Keeravani.
We get Keervani if we take "Pa" of Vakulabharanam as "Sa", isn't it?
The pancama mUrchane of vakuLAbharaNa is a non-viable rAga with both M1 and M2 but no pancama. Not kIravANi.

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DRS
I believe what sahanaVasud meant is the madhyama mUrccana which is KIravANI...

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A rAga may have upto 5 mUrchanes. Although theoretically this is correct, one cannot simply keep shifting the tonic and identify a song as in a new rAga. In the particular clip, I cannot see how the madhyama can be perceived as the ShaDja. The madhyama does not fall into prominence anywhere- as a resting note or as a starting or repeating note.

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Post by drshrikaanth »

Allied triplet- hamvIru, sAranga and behAga are all rAgas whereing both madhyamas are used. In the clips I have provided aso, both the madhyamas occur. The differenitiating point being the nyAsa or resting note. hamvIru- Suddha madhyama is where the halt is. In sAranga, it is on the prati madhyama whie in behAg, it is gAndhAra. The first 2 rAgas, I had covered in my lecdem on hamvIru. behAg, I had expected most people to get it right. Iam glad that most got the other 2 right as well.

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Allied pair- in the short clips of nAyaki and darbAru, you might have noticed that the swara pattern is identical. It is only the handling of the gAndhAra gamaka that differentiates the two. Similarly, the treatment of niShAda also follow the same pattern.(These do not occur in the clip). Nice to see nearly everyone get this right.

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Post by drshrikaanth »

Right- here is the nAyaki rendering from which I sourced my clip:- the magnificent ranganAyakam by P.S.Narayanaswamy

http://www.rogepost.com/n/4188340561

And the darbAru is from sangeethapriya- Sanjay Subramanyam singing rAmAbhirAma

http://www.sangeethapriya.org//Download ... ive05.html

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for some reason i always thought it was a sanjay darbAr for rAmAbhirAmA. hadnt heard this particular piece from him before though. but something told me that this clip is from that only.

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drshrikaanth wrote:A rAga may have upto 5 mUrchanes. Although theoretically this is correct, one cannot simply keep shifting the tonic and identify a song as in a new rAga. In the particular clip, I cannot see how the madhyama can be perceived as the ShaDja. The madhyama does not fall into prominence anywhere- as a resting note or as a starting or repeating note.
In folk 5 song, I hear the following swarams,for the first line: P,DRS,NSNDPMP,,D,,NSNDP,P,,,,,
and that sounds like Keeravani.

I agree with what you have written above if there are gamakas.
There are not much gamakas here, so how can we say that this is Vakulabharanam?

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Thanks Shankar

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SahanaVasud wrote:In folk 5 song, I hear the following swarams,for the first line: P,DRS,NSNDPMP,,D,,NSNDP,P,,,,,
and that sounds like Keeravani.
Iam afraid the swaras you have posted is not correct.
I agree with what you have written above if there are gamakas.
There are not much gamakas here, so how can we say that this is Vakulabharanam?
Do you have a better answer than vakuLAbharaNa? And what gamakas do you expect in vakuLAbharaNa? I asked for the nearest map- in this case its not the nearest but the only right answer. Lack of gamakas does not change a mELa.

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drshrikaanth wrote:
I asked for the nearest map
When you start talking about closes map for folks songs and light music, i am not sure you want to be talking about an absolute closest match; given that most of them are devoid of the gamakas and patterns (pidis/pakad) associated with ragams and the subjectivity in the analysis, rather it would/should be a set of ragams that would match the music.

I read about the point on some being sung at madyama sruti etc - i find this quite out of place. Madyama sruti is relative to the base that was established say at the start of the concert. When you just here a 20 second clip of music, how does one go about establishing that the music is in madyama kalam - beats me entirely.

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shanks wrote:When you start talking about closes map for folks songs and light music, i am not sure you want to be talking about an absolute closest match; given that most of them are devoid of the gamakas and patterns (pidis/pakad) associated with ragams and the subjectivity in the analysis, rather it would/should be a set of ragams that would match the music.
Which answer do you have an issue with Shanks? be more specific.
I read about the point on some being sung at madyama sruti etc - i find this quite out of place. Madyama sruti is relative to the base that was established say at the start of the concert. When you just here a 20 second clip of music, how does one go about establishing that the music is in madyama kalam - beats me entirely.
What beats you- madhyama suti or madhyama kAla? You anwered SankarAbharaNa for clip 4 and that answer is wrong regardless of whether it is in madhyama Sruti or madhyama kAla.

Iam explaining the logic behind the clips and the answers. If you will not see it, Iam afraid there isnt much I can do about it.

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i think thats what the quiz is about... figuring out if it is madhyama shruti or not :P

but vakulabharanam is difficult, since the "average" rasika doesnt know its raga swarupa... given the circumstances, mmgowla or nadanamakriya is acceptable as a closest map, IMHO ;)

i got folk 4 as kedaragowla :rolleyes: am i the only one??

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venkatpv wrote:but vakulabharanam is difficult, since the "average" rasika doesnt know its raga swarupa... given the circumstances, mmgowla or nadanamakriya is acceptable as a closest map, IMHO ;)
Hmm. Pushing youe luck eh! Good try :D

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:cool:

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To quote the bard, "Vakulabharanam by any other name would sound the same" ;)

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:) :D :lol:
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This vakulabharaNam debate reminds me of iLayarAja who never explicitly states the raga since many of the tunes are a good mixture of ragas. Once when he was queried about a song he bluntly asked: Did you like the tune? and as the answer was in the affirmative, he added does it matter what raga it is when I myself do not know what it is :)
I myself stretched folk5 to chakravaaham and would have swore on it and in fact when I slowed the piece by 50% AhirBhairavi jumps out; but then you have to respect the arbitration of the prof :)

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People swear so passionately by their mistaken beliefs :D

But these beliefs must bow down facts- no D2 and only D1 means no cakravAka.

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cmlover wrote:I myself stretched folk5 to chakravaaham and would have swore on it and in fact when I slowed the piece by 50% AhirBhairavi jumps out; but then you have to respect the arbitration of the prof :)
CML, I thought you would have got it right-if you remembered nAcAramma ?

DRS,
Can we have the huSeni piece. Though the clip sounded familiar it took me quite a while to get its name and I verified it by listening to other pieces to arrive at the answer.

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Suji Ram wrote:DRS,
Can we have the huSeni piece. Though the clip sounded familiar it took me quite a while to get its name and I verified it by listening to other pieces to arrive at the answer.
This was recenty posted on sangeethapriya. The clip is from the violin accompaniment to TNS singing tyAgarAja's rAma ninnE namminAnu

Here is the link

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ra ... sage/12031

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So who got the highest score?

Ashamed to admit that I got only 15/20 (assuming boolean grading-no partial credit, haven't heard back from the quiz master).

I got most of the folk songs wrong (my mind always switches 'off' with these folk songs since I almost exclusively listen to only carnatic :() but was glad that I pretty much nailed the 'one' note questions which were devilishly hard.

I was greatly dissapointed at not getting kannada: that was one phrase question that sounded really really familiar and I knew it, but then my mind could not locate it. Its like sometimes in a concert, when you hear the first phrase of an alapana you sort of 'know' the raga but cannot immediately voice it out until you hear the second or third phrases or sing some additional phrases to yourself. (if rasikas know what I mean)
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Post by Lakshman »

Check # 509 in this thread for the scores.

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Oh thanks Lakshman, I must have missed it somewhere in this mega 22-page thread :)

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DRS wrote:

Which answer do you have an issue with Shanks? be more specific.

What beats you- madhyama suti or madhyama kAla?
Your response to my general and personal comments and opinions is surprising. Simply put, I rather expected that you would have an explanation of sorts and not the response posted.

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shanks wrote:Simply put, I rather expected that you would have an explanation of sorts and not the response posted.
Are we talking at crosspurposes here? 2 things- first you did not specify which question/answer you were taking about. What you wrote was ambiguous(madyama Sruti/madhyama kAla). Your approach came across as confrontational and critical. Even so I asked you to clarify what you said. And today your surprise surprises me.

And as far as I could see, I had given an explanation. I cannot keep giving explanations for explanations. Its up to you/others to see what Iam saying.

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rangapuravihAra by Karaikkurichi Arunachalam from which I sourced the clip

http://rapidshare.com/files/11759255/ka ... a.mp3.html

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The source of the kalyANi niShAda- vanajAkShirO varNa by Nedunuri Krishnamurthy

http://www.rogepost.com/n/5123376524

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And the source of the suraTi niShAda- a stupendous elaboration(and a REALY eaborate one) of the rAga and the monumental MD kRti bAlasubrahmaNyam by none other than Lalgudi. A MUST HEAR!

http://www.rogepost.com/n/1312391194

What a beautiful rAga! The essence of CM lies in such rAgas like suraTi, Shahana, tODi and bhairavi. Did someone(SRJ?) say suraTi was a dying rAga? Not if there are artistes like Lalgudi.

coolkarni

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suraTi
this is a great favourite of TNK too.I remember some very fascinating and elaborate renderings.

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