The current song on my lips is vizhiyil un Vizhiyil from Kireedam (excuse moi for the regionalistic turn), this displaces Sahana and Kumaari (from Sivaji and Anniyan respectively) from the top of my favorite hum-worthy tunes.
Kumaari is a class act, Shankar Mahadevan, Harris Jayraj,Veena and the Mridangam create aural bliss. I did a little homework on this, and it turns out that this song is an amalgam of Aarabhi, Suddha Saveri and Saama raagams ( Since decoding the raaga involves a lot of intense hearing and speculations, there may be diverse opinions on this).
Aarabhi is the janya raaga of Sankarabaranam-Janya Raagas being derived from the fundamental set of 72 melkarta raagas. Aarabhi’s been around for a long time, dating back to 7th century AD.Sankarabaranam, which is considered the king of all raagams. The naatu swara saahityams, which are the ABC’s of carnatic music was composed in this raaga by Muthuswami Dikshithar.
Sankarabaranam means ornaments of Lord Shiva (Shankar-Lord Shiva and Aabaranam-Ornaments). The seven Swaras are featured in the seven ornaments of Lord ShivaSa-Sarpa (Snake)
Ri-RudrakshaGa– Ganga (The river Ganges which emerges from Lord Shiva’s head)
Ma-mriga (the tiger skin on which he sits)Pa– Pushpa (flower)
Da-Damuru or the udukkai (Lord Shiva’s instrument)
Ni-Nisakara ( The crescent moon)
Westward ahoy, the endearing “Doe a Deer..” from the Sound of Music is based on Sankarabaranam.
4 comments:
Western music has only a concept of scales -- major and minor. Sankarabharanam is the major scale (or closest to that concept)..:)Ididn't know there was sudha saveri in "Kumari"..always thought it was arabhi and sama..hmm..
Thats interesting..:)
I did some reading on that as well and there is a lot of diverse thoughts on the different raagas in that song. Some people postulate that its purely Aarabhi while some of them say its only suddha Saveri. I guess it has a lot to do with the listeners ability to discern the notes.
Doe a deer was sung in the C-C scale, containing the 8 notes in one octave. my apologies for the mix up..:)
ooh boy, you're turning out to be Mr. Versatile after all :) Very interesting post, and all credit to you for the effort.
danke!!
I try my best..:)
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