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Pancharatna Kritis of Saint Tyagaraja - English
Pancharatna Kritis of Saint Tyagaraja - English
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- The Pancharatna kritis were written in praise of the Hindu deity Rama by Saint Tyagaraja.
- 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 section of the RTP.
- The melodic forms of these compositions (Naatai, Goula, Arabhi, Varali, Sri) are the five Ghana ragas of Carnatic music, also called the "ghanapanchaka" These 5 ragas lend themselves to elaborate improvisations.
- They are so called because they are suitable for playing tanam on the veena.
- Naatai and Varali are two of the most ancient of the Carnatic ragas and date back to over a thousand years ago.
- A particularly difficult musical challenge has been taken up successfully by Tyagaraja in three of these compositions.
- The ragam Naatai has a particularly distinctive use of the dhaivatam note or swaram (A in the C scale of Western classical notes).
- Tyagaraja has avoided the dhaivatam completely in the first Pancharatna Kriti without losing the swarupa or character of the ragam.
- Similarly gandharam is an accidental note of some beauty in Goula (E in the C scale).
- Tyagaraja avoids this too except in one instance without losing the character of the ragam.
- Finally he avoids the accidental dhaivatam in Sri ragam; again a note that is present in some very characteristic sancharas (phrases) of this ragam.
- This book contains clear, bold notations of the famous Pancharatna kritis that are easy to follow.
- The book is handy and can be carried anywhere.
- Language - English
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