Saturday, June 19, 2010

Kapi Ragam


arohanam    :  Sa  re2   Ma1   Pa   Ni3   Sa

avarohanam : Sa   Ni2  Dha2  Ni2   Pa   Ma1   Ga2   Re2   Sa

    In western music, these arohanam and avarohanam can be represented as shown below,

arohanam    : C   D    F   G   B  C

avarohanam : C   A#   A   A#  G  F   D#  D   C

[22 il Jenya Ragam]

        Kaapi Ragam is a janya ragam of kharahara priya ragam. It also induces moods of devotion, pathos and sadness in listeners. A few list of songs composed based on this ragams are shown below,

1. "Jagadhodharana adisidalu " a classical song composed by Purandaradasa.

2. "Enna tavam seydanai " a classical song composed by Papanasam Sivan.

3. "Ente kalbhile vennilavu ne " from film Classmates.

4. "Ennale ente nengile " from film Balettan.

5. "Kazhimizhi " from film Meesha Madhavan.

6. "vara manjal aadiya ravinte " from film Pranaya Varnangal.

7. "Thumpi va " from film Oolangal.

8. "Swarakanyakamar venna " from film Swanthvanam.

2 comments:

  1. Also, you will be able to relate kaapi to movie songs such as,
    Anuraga Vilochananayi- Neelathamara,
    Kolaikara Analachu- thambi vetothi sundaram, uruguthey maruguthey - veyil, Alankuyil koovum rayil -Parthiban Kanavu and Thachukko -Ponniyin Selvan

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