Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar one of the trinity of Carnatic Music was a complete musician a scholar and a sadhaka the one who attained his goal  The genius of Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar was that he was a remarkable synthesis of a versatile composer adept in several distinctive forms of music of a towering scholar in Sanskrit which adorned his music wi..

Tyagaraja  was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or Indian classical music He was a prolific composer and highly influential in the development of the South Indian classical music tradition Tyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions most of them in praise of Lord Rama most of which remain very popular even today Of ..

The Pancharatna kritis are written in praise of the Hindu deity  Rama They are set to Adi Tala and each raga  represents the mood of the song and the meaning of its lyrics All the kritis are composed in the style of a Ragam Tanam Pallavi(RTP) with the charanams (stanzas) substituting for the kalpana swaras (improvisatory passages) in the pallavi ..

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This book contains all the forms and classification of Varnams such as Atatala and Adi tala Varnams one Pancha Nadai Varnam and a handful of Pada Varnams Other categories in this book are janyaraga Kramas and meaning of each Varnam Aspiring musicians and music practitioners will find this book extremely helpful as it contains the choicest of V..

This book contains all the forms and classification of Varnams such as Atatala and Adi tala Varnams one Pancha Nadai Varnam and a handful of Pada Varnams Other categories in this book are janyaraga Kramas and meaning of each Varnam Aspiring musicians and music practitioners will find this book extremely helpful as it contains the choicest of V..

This book contains all the forms and classification of Varnams such as Atatala and Adi tala Varnams one Pancha Nadai Varnam and a handful of Pada Varnams Other categories in this book are janyaraga Kramas and meaning of each Varnam Aspiring musicians and music practitioners will find this book extremely helpful as it contains the choicest of V..

This book contains all the forms and classification of Varnams such as Atatala and Adi tala Varnams one Pancha Nadai Varnam and a handful of Pada Varnams Other categories in this book are janyaraga Kramas and meaning of each Varnam Aspiring musicians and music practitioners will find this book extremely helpful as it contains the choicest of V..

The Treatment of every raga is highlighted with particular reference to Gita prayogo alapaprayoga thaya and prabandha prayoga in addition to udgraha dhrunva prayoga etc Lakshyas are quoted in profusion..

The Treatment of every raga is highlighted with particular reference to Gita prayogo alapaprayoga thaya and prabandha prayoga in addition to udgraha dhrunva prayoga etc Lakshyas are quoted in profusion..

Shyama Shastri was the oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music He was a contemporary of the other two Tyagaraja and Muthuswamy Dikshitar and was a personal friend of the former Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastri were good friends They often met and spent hours together singing Shyama Shastri had deep regard for Tyagaraja  Shyama Shastri..

The Pancharatna kritis are written in praise of the Hindu deity  Rama They are set to Adi Tala and each raga  represents the mood of the song and the meaning of its lyrics All the kritis are composed in the style of a Ragam Tanam Pallavi with the charanams (stanzas) substituting for the kalpana swaras in the pallavi section of the RTP The melodi..

Swarmalika is a style of singing where the vocalist sings the sargam of the song (The notes according to the Indian gamut)   The note for note relationship between the lyrics and the melody is very powerful in delineating the swar   The swarmalika is important in the education of North Indian music because it is a mnemonic for remembering the rags..

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