History of Raga Kalawati

[raghu...@yahoo.com]

I am helping someone prepare a brochure for a hindustani recital.
I need information on Raga Kalawati -- its history, earliest
compositions, etc.

Kindly let me know where I can get this kind of information. I have
been searching the net for the past 3 hours, and found many artists who
have played this raga or movie songs based on this raga, but nothing
about the history and background on Kalawati.

Thanks in advance for you help.

:- raghu

[Town Crier]

I had heard that it has come from Carnatic. On googling I find
differing opinions. ITC-SRA http://www.itcsra.org/sra_faq_index.html
says under No. 5 "What are the similarities and differences between
'Hindustani' and 'Carnatic' music?": "There is a third category of
ragas like Hamsadhwani, Charukeshi, Kalavati etc. which are essentially
Carnatic Ragas. They share the same name, the same scale ..." OTOH
karnATik http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/hcragatable.html says
under "Equivalent (and Near-Equivalent) Ragas in Hindustani and
Carnatic Music" in tabular form that Hindustani Raga kalAvati of That#3
is Carnatic Raga valaji of Mela#16. Hope someone settles the matter
for raghu.

DG

[Kedar]

>>"They share the same name, the same scale .."

I dont think this is true regd. KalAvati. It goes by the name Valachi
(Valaji) in Carnatic. However, there does exist a raga called KalAvati
in carnatic under the same 16th melakartha.

my 2 cents,
Kedar.

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This may be of interest to you:

hindustAni rAga kOsha - by Sri R R Keshavamurthy gives in page 31 the
following details about rAga kalAvati
classified under KamAj thAT
vAdi - PA; samvAdi - SA
phakaD - S G P S' D N S' N; S' D P G P D P G; S
TIME - 12 pm. 3 am.

rAgalakShaNa mattu rAgakOsha - by the same author gives in page 94 the
following details about this karnatic rAga:
ArOhaNa: S R1 M1 P D2 S' avarOhaNa: S' D2; P M1 G3 S R1 S
This rAga is upAnga janya in chakravAka mELa. It is "auDava - ShADava"
rAga. GA and NI are not allowed in ArOhaNa. NI is not allowed in
avarOhaNa. - vakra, ShADava. - RiShaBa graha. - sARvakAlika rAga. It
generates niRvEda BAva, BIBatsa rasa. Not an anicient rAga. Sri
tyAgarAja's compositions, "ennuDubotuno" and "okapAri jUDaga" have been
composed in this rAga.
Further to this the author gives six lines of sanchaara in this rAga.

[hbosma]

Found this in Moutal's Comparative study of selected Hindustani Raags:

Kalavati was popularized in Maharastra by Pt. Rao Nagarkar, Roshan Ara
Begum and Gangubai Hangal.
Hindustani Kalavati has nothing do do with the Carnatic counterpart. It
is a Khamaj that raag. It's rather resembles the carnatic raag
Malayamaruta.
An interesting character of Kalavati is its relation to Abhogi Kanada:
taking Madya as the new sa one gets in fact raag Kalavati.
B.S. Rao has a very complete description of Kalavati. He stresses the
resemblances between Kalavati and Durga in aroha (SRMPDSR) and to
Hevriti in avaroha.( I have never heard of the latter btw.) Other
descriptions may be found in J.D. Patki and V.R.
Patwardhan.

As to recordings I'd suggest: Amir Khan, Roshan Ara Begum, Prabha Atre,
Nazakat and Salamat, with Imrat Khan and Vilayat Khan on the
instrumental side. Among recent recordings I think Arati Ankalikar's
version is a fine one.

hans bosma

[kantid...@aol.com]

hbosma wrote:

> As to recordings I'd suggest: Amir Khan, Roshan Ara Begum, Prabha Atre,
> Nazakat and Salamat, with Imrat Khan and Vilayat Khan on the
> instrumental side. Among recent recordings I think Arati Ankalikar's
> version is a fine one.
>
> hans bosma

Hi Hans,

In one the CD notes it is stated that Kalawati is similar to
VALAJI and JANSANMOHINI.

As to the recordings, I have the following

Ajit Kadkade 11 minutes WCD100089
Amjad Ali Khan 6 BMG50549
Bismillah Khan 23 CDNF150124
Budhaditya Mukherjee 45 IM100
Hyderabad Bros 6 CDNF147735
V G Jog 12 VIS1005
Milind Chittal 22 D4HV0586
Nishat Khan 10 SICCD042
Parween Sultana 22 CDNF024
Parween Sultana 10 CDNF150112 with Dilshad
Rahul Sharma 74 SWM028
Rajan/Sajan M 29 BIS17
Sachdev G S 14 LYR7405 & 30 AC1029
Salamat & sons 15 NI5444
Sanjeev Abhyankar 26 NICV101
Satish Vyas 55 NR138
Shiv Kumar Sharma 44 SICCD026
Tarun Bhattacharya 59 SWM014

Could you please let me know the CD number of Arati Ankalikar's
recording. My email kantid...@aol.com Thank you.

Regards,

Kanti Dattani

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Dikshitar has also composed a song in this raga - "kalaavati
kamalaasana yuvati" popularized by late Dr. S. Ramanathan and Sowmya.

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