New age IR's Raga Choices

[vel]

what a blinder of a song -- great singing by HH --

madhyama sruthi keeravani (tonal shift hemavathi), then knock off M2 from hemavathi, reach to misra sivaranjani....wah re wah....

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Illayaraja Songs by Ragams in Thiraipaadal.com -> http://thiraipaadal.com/playlistir.php?lang=en

Totally 139 Raagaas are listed. I am posting the top 15 most used Raagams

Raaga-------Notes---------------------------------------------------No of Songs
Keeravani | S R2 G2 M1 P D1 N3 S | S N3 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S 70
SindhuBhairavi | S R2 G2 M1 G2 P D1 N2 S | N2 D1 P M1 G2 R1 S N2 S 56
Shankarabharanam | S R2 G3 M1 P D2 N3 S | S N3 D2 P M1 G3 R2 S 51
Mayamalawagowlai | S R1 G3 M1 P D1 N3 S | S N3 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S 46
Sudhadhanyasi | S G2 M1 P N2 S | S N2 P M1 G2 S 46
Mohanam | S R2 G3 P D2 S | S D2 P G3 R2 S 43
Natabhairavi | S R2 G2 M1 P D1 N2 S | S N2 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S 35
Madhyamavathi | S R2 M1 P N2 S | S N2 P M1 R2 S 34
Kalyani | S R2 G3 M2 P D2 N3 S | S N3 D2 P M2 G3 R2 S 29
Sivaranjani | S R2 G2 P D2 S I S D2 P G2 R2 S 24
Gowrimanohari | S R2 G2 M1 P D2 N3 S | S N3 D2 P M1 G2 R2 S 23
Vakulabharanam | S R1 G3 M1 P D1 N2 S | S N2 D1 P M1 G3 R1 S 20
Pahadi | S R2 G3 P D2 P D2 S | N3 D2 P G3 M1 G3 R2 S N3 D2 P D2 S 19
Abheri | S G2 M1 P N2 S | S N2 D2 P M1 G2 R2 S 18
Charukesi | S R2 G3 M1 P D1 N2 S | S N2 D1 P M1 G3 R2 S 18

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Total 1162 Songs of Rja, classified based on their Raagams. Laudable Effort

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...Za0ZmbHc#gid=0

[Rangarajan nambi]

While playing on the key board , I realised that the Katrai konjam ( NEPV ) is a great melody largely structured on Sankarabaranam ! R2 , G3 , M1 and D2 are dominant throughout the song but the charanam ends at D1 which is unShankarabaranamish !! That’s why the song is so melodious and attracts everyone on first hearing itself .

IR is a mysterious guy when it comes to Carnatic classical ! However, I reserve my comments on Hindustani prowess.

[thumburu]

And "saindhu saindhu" is faintly Mohanam based

[jaiganes]

Just checking.. is Gaali ningi neeru from Sri Rama Rajyam in Bhairavi?

[baroque]

Jai,

Gali Ningi Neeru - Ilayaraja - S.P. B



it's RAGAM KIRWANI!

R.D.BURMAN'S aane wala......GOLMAAL....KISHORE KUMAR!

அன்பே எந்தன் காதல் சொல்ல நொடி ஒன்று போதுமே
அதை நானும் மெய்ப்பிக்க தானே ஒரு ஆயுள் வேண்டுமே

[Rangarajan nambi]

And "saindhu saindhu" is faintly Mohanam based

True ! the pallavi has Mohanam's G3,R2 and lower D2 and then straight from G3 to P !! I have to play the charanam to explore further . Why that Yuvan is totally out of Sruthi ? When I head Raja explaining the notes to GVM, his voice was much better. Would have been nice if Raja himself had sung this .

Vanam mella sounds similar to the notes of AAgAya vennilAve. Difficult to identify.

[Rangarajan nambi]

Raja also gives a surprise on interludes. Take for ex, Appdi pakrudhuna from Ivan , a Sudha Raghunathan song. Suddenly in Interlude II, the Violins will momentarily switch to Vasantha raga ! Thats an stunning shift !

No composer goes to an un related territory within a song and come back to the same song like IR !

[V_S]

Rangarajan,
Great posts with lot of details about raagams. Thanks a lot. You should write more often and I am also greedy to even request lengthy posts from you about the songs and their specialty.