Articles – Ravi Rajagopalan

Raga Architecture of the 18th Century – Part 1

[simple-author-box] Prologue: A perusal of 21st century music and musicology and comparing it with what it was in 18th century ...
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Samanta – The Raga lost in the wilderness of time

[simple-author-box] Prologue: Ragas sporting the vivadi combination of svaras has not been seen much in the world of our Music, ...
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The Melodic setting of ‘svAminAtha paripAlayAsumAm’ of Muthusvami Dikshitar

[simple-author-box] Prologue: It is one of the settled principles of music or for that matter any art form, that utmost ...
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Kannada Bangala & Malahari – The Conjoined Twins

Introduction: Popular commentary as well as accounts of musicologists always has it that Muthusvami Dikshitar was a staunch follower of ...
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Sahana – The bejewelled tiara of our music

INTRODUCTION: The raga Sahana is one of our crown jewels, a rakti raga par excellence. Almost every composer in our ...
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