Episodes
Friday Oct 23, 2009
Episode 51: Special Rasikas’ Voice With Listener Renditions -- Part II
Friday Oct 23, 2009
Friday Oct 23, 2009
Friday Oct 16, 2009
Episode 50: Special Rasikas’ Voice With Listener Renditions -- Part 1
Friday Oct 16, 2009
Friday Oct 16, 2009
Happy Deepavali! We have received an excellent response to our call for listener submissions. We really appreciate your involvement and enjoyed listening to each submission. Given the response, we will be spreading the submissions as well as our discussion on each selected entry across the next few episodes. In Part I, we feature submissions by: Kum. Ashraya Ananthanarayan who sent in a Tyagaraja composition in Bangala raaga, Adi tala and Smt. Durga Krishnan who submitted a thanam on veena in two raagas -- Hamsanandi and Kalyani.
Wednesday Sep 30, 2009
Episode 49: Relevance of Arohanam and Avarohanam in Defining a Raaga's Structure
Wednesday Sep 30, 2009
Wednesday Sep 30, 2009
We wrap up our introductory series on Arohanam and Avarohanam with a discussion on whether or not raagas are entirely and solely defined by their corresponding ascending and descending scales. Using examples of raagas such as Reetigowlai, Madhyamavati, and Hamsaroopini, Vidya highlights the varying degrees in which textbook definitions of Arohanam and Avarohanam may (or may not) help understand the form of individual raagas.