My friend Pavan pointed out that the google video link wasn’t playing anymore. So, reblogging with updated youtube link.
The first time I came across the phrase ‘graha bheda‘ was in a book called Sangeetha Darpana by Prof. Ramaratnam. For someone who exactly knew the aarohana and avarohana of three or four raagas, a detailed discussion of graha bheda, it’s possibilities and limitations were too much to swallow. What? Getting Kalyani from Shankarabharana and todi?
Luckily, I had the luxury of having my grandma’s old harmonium at my disposal. Using that, and testing out some of the things in that book, I was able to make sense of what the professor was saying! But over the years, and after becoming a somewhat serious listener of Indian music, I am glad to say the topic excites me today, as much as it did so many years ago.
To cut a long story short, I was asked to present about some topic that could be of interest to students…
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ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 4, 2013 at 5:07 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ
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Here is a link to a swarajati in which the last charaNa has a grahabheda – from Kokilarava to Ratipriya:
This is my own composition 🙂 Thought of adding it here since I spoke about such compositions in the lec-dem video. However, I came up with this composition much later, and had no clue I would do one such when I’d given that talk in 2008!
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