Carnatic Music Tree

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 08 Nov 2007, 15:19

I wonder if any attempt has been made to trace some kind of a "family tree" equivalent of Carnatic Musicians. I am sure it would be relatively easy to go at least as far back as the Trinity if not Purandaradasa. Has any such thing been attempted/discussed?

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 08 Nov 2007, 17:01

Many years ago I put together a Guru-Sishya tree of mrudangam artsites. It is still available at:
http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/ ... gists.html

It has not been updated for over 10 years because I used an old program to create it and was unable to add to it.

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 08 Nov 2007, 17:03

an avid contributor with a golden mine of valuable data at your fingertips, you can take up the search in this regard, if you have the time to do so gobilalitha

sankirnam · Post by **sankirnam** » 08 Nov 2007, 19:07

Mohan, it would be good if you could find a way to update that, there are a few names missing, including mine

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 08 Nov 2007, 21:17

Excellent work Mohan! Perhaps you could update it and also work on the vocal banis...I am willing to put things together but am fairly weak on the knowledge front. Let us see if I can come up with something basic that others can add on to...do we have a good software for this purpose?

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 09 Nov 2007, 00:17

This can be done in excel.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 09 Nov 2007, 04:56

I think I did it originally in Excel but in a later version of excel it didn't work properly. Might have to start again!

thanjavooran · Post by **thanjavooran** » 09 Nov 2007, 16:55

an excellent work. Thanjavur subramaniam is also the son of swaminatha rao alias pillu rao besides his sishya