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SANSKRIT KRITIS OF TYAGARAJA-AT ARADHANA-THEMATIC-

KRITIS
ON
GANESA
MURUGA
KRISHNA
RAMA
SEETA
HANUMAN

Online Music Lessons

Beginning blogging..............
Thanks to my Dear student Angayar Papanasam

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Welcome to this music space!

Keyphrases of my likely postings:
1) Random rhythm which evokes happiness, bakthi, devotion, peace, love!
2) Musical exponents and their compositions.
3) Learners pieces and practices.
Happy listening!

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/01/thyagarajas-aradhana-festival-jan-2010.html

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/06/one-more-addition-on-saraswathy.html



http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010_05_01_archive.html

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010_02_01_archive.html

Saturday, January 23, 2010

First Upload Jan 2010

Deity:Lord GaneshA
RAgam: Shivaranjani (Audava rAgam)
Talam: rUpaka
Composer: PApanAsam Shivan
Artist: Ganga Ramachandran
Ar.: S R2 G2 P D2 S
Av.: S D2 P G2 R2 S
P: taruNam idaiyA dayai puri tudikkaiyA uriya
A: sharaNam enrun malaradi paNi tamiyanai tavikka viDAmal
C: un aruLaladOr tuNai ini ulagil illaiyEendan
munnavanE yAnai mukhanE muruganuk-karuLum tudikkaiyAna (madhyama kAlam)
mukkaTparan maganE vighna vinAyakanEmukkani
mOdaka priyanE abhayam abhayam viraindu vandaruL

Sunday, May 23, 2010

sArasa nEthra!

Composer: Tyagaraja
rAga: SB
Guru: Smt Ganga Ramachandran
Rendition: Sands



Pallavi

sārasa nētra-apāra guṇa sāmaja śikṣa gō-uddharaṇa

Charanam

pāpa gaṇa-abhra samīraṇa pāmara pālita pāvana nāma caṇa tāpasa mānasa sārasa su-bhramara-anagha rāghava mā ramaṇa (tisra gati) yōgi vandya pāhi hē sāgara-ārti haraṇa rāga lōbha dūra śrī tyāgarāja pōṣaṇa (sā)

Meaning
O Lotus Eyed! O Lord of abundant virtues! O Lord who protected the Gajendra – the elephant! O Lord who redeemed his mother!

O Wind that blows away the clouds of multitues of sins! O Protector of the ignorant! O Lord who is famous as having a holy name! O Lord who is the honey-bee hovering over the lotus of hearts of ascetics! O Sinless One! O Lord Raghava! O Beloved of Lakshmi! O Lord worshipped by ascetics! O Lord who relieved the distress of the Lord of Oceans, please protect me; O Lord who is far removed from attachment and avarice! O Nourisher of this Thyagaraja!

 Tuesday, June 8, 2010

One more addition on Saraswathy

Composer: Dikshidar
rAga: Hindolam
tAla: Rupakam
Guru: Smt Ganga Ramachandran
Rendition: Sands



Pallavi

sarasvatI vidhi yuvatI saMrakshatu mAM SrI samashTi

CharaNam

muraLI vINA gAna vinOdinI saMvEdinI
cAru candra hAsinI sarasIruha lOcanI
(madhyama kAla sAhityam)
murAri guru guha mOdinI SabdArtha svarUpiNI
haMsinI brahmANI Arakta varNa rUpiNI

ANNAMACHARYA WORKSHOP-ONLINE

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=12

Shri Tyagaraja Aradhana in Bur Dubai!

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Shri Tyagaraja Aradhana in Bur Dubai!

Tyagaraja aradhana programme was organised by Mohana - a group of music lovers - with an intent to promote young talent in music in Dubai to celebrate Sri Tyagaraja Day on 29th January in Bur Dubai.

Songs rendered by Shraddha and Shreya

1) Shara Shara Samrarika
Raagam: Kuntala Varali
Thaalam: Adi
Arohanam: SMPNDS
Avrohanam: SNDPM,S

2) Narayana Hari
Raagam: Yamuna Kalyani
Thaalam: Adi

Both songs in Sruthi G.

Tamil World Conference 2010, an extravaganza festival @ Coimbatore,

Monday, June 21, 2010

Tamizh Chemmozhi  Manadu 2010!

Tamil World Conference 2010, an extravaganza festival @ Coimbatore, has interesting varied thematic sessions.

Smt Ganga Ramachandran: TAMIZH POETRY AND MUSIC OF T.LAKSHMAN PILLAI – A STUDY

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1660110981259&set=a.1371893616005.2047889.1191710922&type=3&theater

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/01/thyagarajas-aradhana-festival-jan-2010.html
http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/01/thyagarajas-aradhana-festival-jan-2010.html

VARNAMs -rare from kerala kvn khamas ppb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-VSXLWEm9A

http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/01/varna-and-its-significance.html
http://octave2010.blogspot.in/2010/07/varnam-sambho.html

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Folk Songs Workshop-Carnatica

CARNATICA'S SUMMER CAMPS AT CHENNAI AND OOTY - OVERWHELMING SUCCESSES

Carnatica organized a very unique Summer Camp at its T.Nagar premises from May 1 to 10, 2002. This camp was aimed at giving the students an overall exposure to voice training. The course included Yoga and Voice culture in addition to devotional music, folk music and Japanese music. The students were also taught some masterpieces in Carnatic music. This camp was very well attended by students between the ages of 3 and 20. There were also classes on Hindustani music which were handled by Smt. Saumya  Madangopal.  Devotional music was taught by Smt. Seetha Narayanan while folk music was taught by  Smt. S Sowmya and Smt. Ganga Ramachandran. The classes on voice culture and masterpieces in Carnatic music were handled by Smt. S Sowmya, Sri. K N Shashikiran and Sri. P Ganesh. A crash course in Japanese music was offered for the very first time in Chennai as part of the course. Miss Mayumi Yamada from Osaka, Japan was the course instructor. One of the other highlight of the camp were the guest lectures and classes by reputed musicologists and musicians like Prof. S R Janakiraman, Sri. N Ravikiran and Sri. N Vijay Siva. The 10-day camp concluded with a music test for all the students, and deserving students were awarded certificates of merit.

Rare kritis in malayalam of Kerala composers

Ganga Ramachandran-Malayalam kritis by irayimman tampi/kuttykunjutankachi/kesava pilla/Poonthanam

Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha is holding this vocal concert by Dr S A K Durga, who will present compositions of lesser-known Vaggeyakaras in Sanskirt, Tamil, Telugu Mayalayalam and Kannada. Other musicians who will be part of the event are Gayathri Girish, Ganga Ramachandran, Manasi Prasad, B Lalitha Madhav and Vidya Subramanian with accompnists R Rahul and B Ganapathiraman. For details, call: 24992672

 
• Raga Sudha Hall(Mylapore)
 
• Schedule
 
• On Sunday, Sep 09, 2012

Gita Shibiram 2014

WITH STALWARTS AT THE MUSIC SEASON FESTIVAL

Music — different perspectives -

Music — different perspectives - The Hindu

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Jan 2, 2009 - Ganga Ramachandran, N. Ravikiran, Suhash Vyas and Sriram Parasuram. ..

From archives to history, the Music Academy morning conference  ...

GANGA RAMACHANDRAN-LEC DEM  AT THE MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY

The discussions of December 23 were dedicated to Sathur Subramaniam about whom Prof. S.R. Janakiraman spoke briefly. There were two lecture demonstrations during the day and the first one was by Ganga Ramachandran on ‘Contribution of Ennappadam Venkatarama Bhagavatar (1880-1961) - rare ragas.’

Rare ragas

Ganga Ramachandran started her presentation with a brief biographical sketch of Ennappadam Venkatarama Bhagavatar, who composed about 146 kritis of which about 108 are on Krishna with his mudra Venkataramana. He also composed nirupana songs for Harikathas without any mudra. He was honoured by The Music Academy in 1959 with a Certificate of Merit. She spoke of eight rare ragas and talas employed by him and listed them; Sumukhi, Raasabouli, Muralinadam, Vrndavanakutuhalam, Prakasini, Sreedhari, Priyadarsini and Rasavarali and also mentioned some talas like Nuti, Preethi and Devaranjanam.

Chitraveena N. Ravikiran presented a lecture demonstration on ‘Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi,’ whom he described as one of the most brilliant composers. He started his presentation with questions about his existence and whether he wrote all the compositions attributed to him. He listed the kshetra kritis composed by him on different pilgrim centres to substantiate his style and lyrical structure. He said that a sannidhi, a memorial, exists at Oothukkadu. His composition on ‘Guru Ennapunyam’ in Ritigowla establishes a human guru to him while the Suratti composition reiterates the guru factor. Oothukkadu’s mention of Purandara Dasa and Tulsidas establish his time as after 1623.

Ravikiran brought to the attention of the audience the article of TV Subbarao in 1956 Journal of The Music academy in support of Oothukkadu. He was one composer who wrote about Radha, he said. He also talked of his Sanskrit compositions and Navavarana Kritis to establish his mastery over the languages. Ravikiran talked of a secondary signature in some of his compositions.

The second lecture demonstration was by Sriram Parasuram on ‘Hindustani ragas and their adaptation into Karnatic Music.’ He chose five pairs of ragas, Begada (Bihagada), Ramkali (Ramakali), Dvijavanti (Jayjayvanti), Bilahari (Bilaval) and the Kanada family ragas. He emphasised the process of transformation was complete in some cases as in the case of Begada. He drew the attention of the audience to how the two nishadas are hallmark of Begada and how they are employed in terms of gamaka. He gave examples of many compositions and demonstrated some shifting from one style to the other with great facility and ease.

Sangita Kala Nidhi Nedunuri Krishnamurthi, assisted by disciples, the Malladi Brothers gave a lecture demonstration on ‘ Annamacharya’s compositions and the music he composed for them.’ Dr.Pappu gave a brief introduction of Annamacharya and his compositions.