Articles – Arvindh Ranganathan

The ragam Ramakali and the krti “Rama rama kali kalusa”- Part II

Let us go to the next segment in this series, on the authority of using prati madhyamam in this rāgam, being a ...
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The ragam Ramakali and the krti “Rama rama kali kalusa”- Part I

[simple-author-box] Tanjāvūr during 16-19 CE saw an influx of exotic rāgā-s from North and the other parts of this country ...
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Manuscripts in the possession of Sivakumar, a descendant of Tanjavur Quartette

[simple-author-box] Our music was propagated by two routes – oral and textual. Though we have a textual history of approximately ...
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Apurva raga-s handled by Tyagaraja Svamigal – Svarabhusani

[simple-author-box] Out of 600 or 700 compositions of Saint Tyāgarājā available to us, a significant fraction was composed in vinta ...
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The Quest for the true melodic contours of Tyagaraja’s “varadarAja ninnEkOri”

[simple-author-box] PROLOGUE: The raga names and their associated melodic contour for Tyagaraja’s compositions, from a theoretical framework can be assessed ...
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