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Viriboni
Raga Bhairavi
Tala Atta (5+5+2+2=14 beats)
Composer Pacchimiriyam Adiappayya (1740-1833)
Dr L Subramaniam (Violin)
Ambi Subramaniam (Violin)
VV Ramanamurthy (Mridangam)
TN Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)
D Rajagopal (Kanjira)
G Satya Sai (Morsing)
Venkatraman (Tambura)
About the Raga:
Bhairavi is one of those iconic ragas that can be said to define Carnatic music. A richly ornamented raga, it is best dealt with in a leisurely and meditative tempo although it admits to brisk phrases and flashy passages as well. An ancient raga that is soaked in classicism, it evokes many emotions including those of love, devotion, and sorrow. It has seven notes in the ascending (in a zig-zag order) and descending. In the ascending, it uses D, (a foreign note) while in the descending it uses D a note of the scale. The scale of Bhairavi is derived from the parent scale Natabhairavi (which is the equivalent of the Aeolian Mode of Western classical music) and has the notes -
S G2 R2 G2 M1 P D2 N2 S - Ś N2 D1 P M1 G2 R2 S
Bhairavi is replete with embellishments that are typical to South Indian classical music. In fact, every note of Bhairavi can be presented with ornamentation. Apart from Sa and Pa, the notes that can be played without ornamentation are Ri, Ma, and to some extent Da2. These also serve as resting notes and tonal centers to develop the raga. In Bhairavi, although Da2, is technically a foreign note, it is used as much as the other notes of the scale. We have seen earlier, ragas like Saranga employ the foreign note liberally while ragas like Kambhoji use the foreign notes sparingly.
The Hindustani raga Bhairavi is totally different from this and instead corresponds to the raga
Sindhubhairavi of Carnatic music. Being a heavily classical raga, Bhairavi has not been a popular choice for film composers but in some of the compositions where it has been used-both in films and semi-classical music-it has been hugely successful.
About the Composer:
Pacchimiriam Adiappayya was a famous court musician at the Maratha kingdom of Thanjavur in the 18th century. He belongs to the Kannada Madhwa Brahmin community. He was a composer of Carnatic music. Some of his famous disciples were Syama Sastri, one of the Trinity of Carnatic composers, and Ghanam Krishna Iyer. His compositions are in the Telugu language.
Pacchimiriam Adiappayya's most famous composition is the varnam Viriboni in Bhairavi ragam.
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2 ноя 2021
