Azerbaijani Thodi
I didn't want to write a post today. Yesterday I had posted a humour article in my other blog, boigudabakwas . Added to it was some more work which was done for a Solvanam article. So I did not have the inclination to do anything today. My friend Ramachandran, who runs a very nice blog on Carnatic Music, http://carnaticmusicreview.wordpress.com / sent a link on twitter which stunned me and at the same time spurred me into action. (Ram had inturn got it from his friend, Srikanth, http://www.srikanthd.com / ) There are some ragas in Carnatic Music which are very unique to it and you will not find them in other systems. Ragas oft quoted are Yadhukula Kambhoji, Begada, KedaraGowla, Anada Bhairavi, Reethigowla and some more. I had been thinking that Todi too was one such ragam, which is very unique to Carnatic Music. That would be surprising since Todi is not a vakra raga, it contains all the seven notes and as a scale it is not a difficult one to imagine. I have...