Raag Saraswati
Achyut Joshi
and vadi/samvadi for this raag?
Achyut
Sanjeev Ramabhadran
> Can someone please provide me with aaroh/avaroh, chalan, gaayan samay,
> and vadi/samvadi for this raag?
>
AFAIK, it's another import from the South. Think it's classified as an
evening raga up North. Not sure about vadi-samvadi, but if I had to
take a guess, I'd say P-R/P-S or reverse. Aaroh-Avaroh is something
like:
S R m P D n D S":: S" n D P m R n' S (Teevra Ma, Komal Ni, no Ga).
I liked Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan's recording of this except for some
unnecessary seizure-like ati-taar saptak stuff at the end.
Sanjeev Ramabhadran
Balu Nadig
says...
Being particularly fond of this Raga, I have managed to find:
Hindustani: Pt. Ram Narain on the Sarangi
Pt. Manilal Nag on the Sitar
Malini Rajurkar
Ustad Rashid Khan
Carnatic: L. Subramaniam (Saraswatipriya?)
Dr. M. Bala Murali Krishna
Mali on the flute
Any others?
Regards
Balu Nadig
Kalpit Pandya
virsa video with his son and ustad shaukat hussein on tabla. He also has a
cd out which includes rag todi, saraswati as far as I know, haven't heard it
in a while.
Regards,
kalpit pandya
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vimal aga
Achyut Joshi wrote in message ...
>Can someone please provide me with aaroh/avaroh, chalan, gaayan samay,
>and vadi/samvadi for this raag?
saraswati (or saraswati kalyaan) is a carnatic import, and the original
carnatic raag arises from the vachaspati mela. the a/a swarup is variously
stated as (Caps shuddha, m teevra):
S R m P D P S': S' n D P m P (m)R S; or
S R m P n D S': S' n D P m R S.
in hindustani terms, it is a mixture of kalyaan in the poorvanga (albeit
without the G), and jhinjhoti in the uttaranga. as is evident from the a/a
swarup, the n is vakra in the chalan, and the grace note of m in the descent
from P to R sounds beautiful and is a vital part of the raag structure. it
is however, a different P-R swoop from what one sees in yaman and shuddha
kalyan, or in chhayanat; IMO, one must hear these swoops to appreciate the
difference. it is a raag of the night (raat ka doosra prahar), and P is the
vaadi while R is samvaadi. the R-m gap is a wide one to bridge, making the
singing challenging (reminiscent of the R-m gap in shyaam kalyaan, where the
rest of the structure is entirely different and the descent is thru the
phrase G M R, or the kamod-ic G M P, G M R; the G is to be avoided
completely in saraswati).
apart from the already mentioned recordings, pandit firoze dastur has a
wonderful recording of saraswati on the rhythm house classic label. i was
also pleasantly surprised to hear the dagar dude uday bhawalkar perform
saraswati as the opening item at a concert in madison two years ago. does
anyone know if it is a part of the traditional dagar repertoire?
warm regards,
vimal.
Lakshman Ragde
This
raga was first introduced in the north by Baburao Umdekar of Gwalior. It
uses Purvanga of Kalyan and uttaranga of Khammaj. The scale is:
SRM*PDS--SNDPM*RS. But in practice, in aroha, ni is used in vakra
sanchara. Aroha and avaroha of Sarasvati are:
S-RM*P-NDP-NDS*-S*R*N*-DPM*-(M*)RM*P-(M*)R....S
Pakad or dignostic svara groups are: (M*) RM*P-(S*)NDP-(M*)P-R....S
svaras used are tivra ri, prati ma, tivra dh and komal ni. Vadi is Pa
and
samvadi is Ri. This raga is sung at night till midnight. Svara groups
R*N DP and P M* R...S are frequently used. Ri is elongated in avaroha
and
it sounds nice. Ni is used in vakra sanchara only in aroha.
Compositions
in this raga are: Piya tore lagi tirachi-trital(madhya)-J.D.Patki and
hasa hasata aye shyama-trital(madhya)-J.D.Patki. Hindustani raga Shyam
Kalyan has some resemblance to Sarasvati. Shyam Kalyan uses only tivra
ni. Ga is used in avaroha.
note: Asterisk indicates tara sthayi notes. Bracketed notes are grace
notes.
Bansijeff
tamboura tuned to Ma. It is a little similar to Bageshri without Pa but uses Re
in ascent. Ali Akbar Khan sometimes teaches traditional bandishes in this
version.
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