Music And Movies

I had earlier written about the various types of song structures given by Tyagaraja. Now let us examine the themes that were dealt with by Tyagaraja. Basically lot of people feel that Tyagaraja's krithis are mainly 'bhajanais' or that they have a pleading tone. 'Azhugai' as they call in Tamil. This has mainly to do with the fact that many people who listen to Carnatic music dont know Telugu. That Tyagaraja's krithis all portray a similar mood is far from truth. So let us examine the different themes that Tyagaraja dealt with. First lets look at the krithis of his in which portray the 'karunya rasa'. These are the ones wherein Tyagaraja asks Rama to come and save him, give him moksham etc. A lot of his followers, who became vaggeyakaras later, used this tone often. The beauty of Tyagaraja's krithis was that they were very poetic even when the tone was imploring. You just need to check out the meaning of the krithi 'Nagumomu' in Abheri to know

Let me start my music blog by writing about one of the greatest composers of all time, Tyagaraja. Tyagaraja holds the pride of place in Carnatic Music. In this post I will try to illustrate the reasons why he is held in such high esteem. V.Raghavan, T S Parthasarathy and lot more people have written about the greatness of Tyagaraja. Many of these are scholarly works. What I am about to write is my own experience with the krithis of Tyagaraja. The first reason I feel Tyagaraja is so popular is due to the variety of song structures that he has given. I will try and give examples of those. 1. Divya Nama Sankirthanam - This is probably the most simple song structure. Here the pallavi is set to a tune. Usually this is of one or two lines. After that you get multiple charanams, all with the same tune but with different words. This would be very much suited for bhajan type of singing. The tune is also is quite simple and charming. An example of this would be a Divyanama Sankirthanam like '