Articles – Ravi Rajagopalan
Short Notes:Cittasvaras
INTRODUCTION: ‘Cittasvaras’ or more conventionally ‘muktayisvaras’ are svara appendages/solfeggio passages seen in darus, varnas, kritis, ragamalikas and svarajatis. In focus ...
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The Extinct Malavasri
[simple-author-box] Prologue & A Prelude: Ragas like Saranganatta, Desakshi, Samantha and Malavasri once upon time ruled the roost but today ...
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A Critical Appreciation of the raga Jujavanti and ‘ceta srI bAlakrishnam’
[simple-author-box] Prologue: The raga Jujavanti is typically spoken about in our world of music as a Northern import. The first ...
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Caturanana Pandita I – A Courtier-General & a Pontiff
Prologue: Our country in the past has sired a great number of men whose valour, glory, contribution and many a ...
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Anubandha to the Caturdandi Prakashika – A Monograph
[simple-author-box] Prologue: Time and again in these blog posts we refer to a musicological work called the Anubandha to the ...
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