rag Gunkali
John Napier
Was listening to a recording of this raga by Mushtaq Hussain Khan last
night. It contains quite a few instances of shuddh ga, which I thought
was not on in this raga. Is this a case of a singer of advanced years
making some errors of voice control, or is the occasional use of shuddh
ga a permissible variety of this rag.
Please mail and post replies, as my receipt of postings on this newsgroup
is patchy.
John Napier
j.na...@unsw.edu.au
Rajan P. Parrikar
>Hi
>
> Was listening to a recording of this raga by Mushtaq Hussain Khan last
>night. It contains quite a few instances of shuddh ga, which I thought
>was not on in this raga. Is this a case of a singer of advanced years
>making some errors of voice control, or is the occasional use of shuddh
>ga a permissible variety of this rag.
The fairly wide interval between the shuddha madhyam and
the komal rishab makes the grace of an intermediate swara
compelling in descent. Since Gunakali is a bhairavAnga
rAga the natural choice for this intermediary is the
shuddha gandhAr. Apropos of the issue, the following
was posted some months ago.
Warm regards,
r
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Subject: Re: RAGA Gunakri
From: parr...@ferrari.Colorado.EDU (Rajan P. Parrikar)
Date: 1999/03/20
Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
In article <01be7243$3487c180$d365ad84@lpc02955>
"Rajiv Chakravarti" <rajiv.ch...@wichita.boeing.com> writes:
>Hello all !
>
>I was wondering if someone could help me with the
>chalan of Raga "Gunakri" (not Gunakali)... I was
>recently listening to Kumar Gandharva's rendition
>of this raga - and I got the feeling it employs BOTH
>nishadhs (in a "vakra" mode).. I
>am however, not sure if I heard right..
>
>Some of you might have heard the bandish:
> "aa mhaara man rasiya, re
> daras bina re, taras rahi maiN"
> nirakh nirakh nit raina dinaa re
> yaad karat mohe, taras gayi maiN "
>and could perhaps elucidate ? (Apart from a longer version
>on an Alurkar release, this piece also shows up on a
>Navras CD release titled "Bhairav ke Prakaar")
>
>What I got out of this raga was:
>Ascent: S r M P d N S.
>Descent: S. N d P, M P d n d P, M G r S
>
>(lower cases denotes komal versions, M = shuddh madhyam)
>
>I would appreciate any information on this beautiful
>melody scale...
>
>Thanks.
>Rajiv
>PS: If someone has heard Kumarji sing the above
>bandish, does he also touch on the shuddh rishabh
>at times?
The answer to your very last question about the shuddha
rishab is no.
Gunakri is a bhairavAnga rAga, nominally of the oDava jAti,
and employs the S r M P d swaras (M=shuddha). The bhairavAnga
is highlighted by the nyAsa on and Andolans about the komal
dhaivat and the komal rishab. The pancham is also a strong
swara. De-emphasis of the madhyam is required to distance Jogiya.
Kumar Gandharva's sui generis treatment steps out of the strict
pentatonic bounds in special ways. The 'vivAdi' swaras (G, n, N)
are touched upon in descent only (avarohAtmak), the gandhAr being
fairly piquant (in the mukhDA of the composition itself, for
instance, via a quick flourish of the kind P M G r S). The shuddha
nishAd is graced en route from the tAr shaDaj to the komal
dhaivat of the madhya saptak via a meenD (S"....(N)d). The komal
nishAd figures occasionally in a quick trill: MPdnDPMGrS.
These 'transgressions' in Gunakri are not unique to KumarG but
his manner of execution is. The peripheral 'machinery' indicated
above is handled carefully. This is shruti-manohar gAyaki at its
sublime best. Compare KumarG's treatment with another marvellous
rendition of Gunakri in Patiala's Fateh Ali Khan.
Warm regards,
r
ChristianAMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWacH3t7G8M - Pt A Chakr - " Gao Gunkali Gunijan Mein Gao " either a lakshan geet or close . Lots of layakari . I hope more shishyas like Shantanu Bhattacharyya follow this dynamic style .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdtPr_MyjuQ - Ud Fateh Ali Khan - Tarana at the end - identical ( or almost ) to Manohar´s Jogiya !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUP3QcNh-8 - Pt Jagdish Prasad- drut " Jay jay Shiva Shankara Suta Ganesh "