S. Bhagyalekshmy
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The period from 18 to 20 century is considered as the Golden Era in the history of Karnatic Music, both from the Lakshya and Lakshana aspects. The period witnessed the emergence of innumerable number of compositions having variety and vividity. The long lineage of great vaggeyakaras enriched the rich treasury of Karnatic music with their umpteen number of kritis. The musical contributions of composers ranging from Annamacharya to Mysore Vasudevachar form a link ...
Ages have not withered the appeal of Tyagaraja kritis and even today lovers of music are enthralled by his music, which transcends barriers of nationality, religion, and language. Tyagaraja’s compositions have become real classics, "companion of all times". In this book I have endeavoured to bring out the notated text of selected compositions of the saint composer. I have provided a brief introduction summarising the biography of the ...
South India in the 18 century was a place where music blossomed and flourished into a mighty tree from the deep roots of past knowledge. In the course of the next two centuries we saw the emancipation of music in the form of Trimurtis, Saint Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri. Among the Musical Trinity, Muthuswamy Dikshitar was the youngest and was considered as one of the pillars of Karnatic Music. He was a great scholar, astrologer, Tantrik, and ...
More than 450 popular Ragas in Carnatic Music have been compiled in this volume. Each raga has been explained in detail with its swara notation, Arohana, Avarohana, Melakartha and Janya parentage, Raga lakshana and visesha sanchara for each raga. Each raga contains details about the compositions available in each raga with its tala and composer. The introductory chapters contain exhaustive material on Svaras and Srutis, Melakartha ragas and their classification, ...
It has been a long felt need of the music lovers to have a source index of Carnatic music Compositions, from where they could find out the name of the raga, composer and tala of often heard and popular compositions. I have tried to compile an index of about 6000 compositions which are more popular and are often heard in concerts and elsewhere. The present volume is a venture in this direction.
Dance music is different from concert music. For the success of a Bharathanatya performance the accompanying music should fulfill several criteria. The majority of dance concerts are marred by the poor quality of accompanying music. In this book Dr. S. Bhagyalekshmy discusses the various aspects of dance music and throws light on the general defects and shortcomings of dance music. She also deals with the tenets of music dance and describes an ideal performance ...