Raag Kalavati

[Achyut Joshi]

RMIC,

I have a question about the incorporation of shuddh rishabh in Kalavati.
Prabhulaal Garg Vasant's "Sangeet Visharad" states that not only is the
shuddh rishabh present in the raag, but that it's the vadi.

I recently listened to Pt. Rajan & Sajan Mishra's beautiful recording of
Kalavati (bada khayaal - "eri aali ban ban aao", chhota khayaal - "maika
piya bulaave"), but didn't find the aforementioned stress on the rishabh.
In fact, it seems to me like it's barely sung. What's more, the brothers
don't even mention it in their bol-taans.

What's going on?

Achyut

[Warren Senders]

>I have a question about the incorporation of shuddh rishabh in Kalavati.
>
>Prabhulaal Garg Vasant's "Sangeet Visharad" states that not only is the
>shuddh rishabh present in the raag, but that it's the vadi.

This ties in nicely with my remarks on another thread
about raag boundaries, no?

Yes, Garg does specify the use of Re in Kalavati. But I have
never heard a performance along the lines he specifies. Most
curious; I wonder if some of his other raag descriptions are
similarly eccentric -- but have no time to spare for such
research at the moment. Subbha Rao delineates the more conventionally
heard Kalavati, sans Re and Ma.

I was taught to use Re in tar saptak only, as a "color" note. It
sounds very nice, without vitiating the prevailing pentatonicity
of the mode.

WS

[naniwadekar]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010211015318.14939A-
100...@godzilla6.acpub.duke.edu>,
Achyut Joshi <as...@duke.edu> wrote Re. shuddh rishabh in kalavati:

> In fact, it seems to me like it's barely sung. What's more, the

> brothers > don't even mention it (rishabh) in their bol-taans.
>
You mean sargam-ka-taan, surely ?

I could be wrong, but as I understand, when a taan uses words
(or bol_s) of the cheez, rather than aa-kaar or e-kaar, it is
called bol-taan. When the singer pronounces sa-re-ga-ma in his
taan, it is called doing sargam (whether in alapi/badhat or taan.)

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[Kalpit Pandya]

Hi,
Jansambodhini(not too sure of the spelling) comes to my mind if
shudh re is added to kalavati. The ever so beautiful pharse Ni(komal) re ga
pa ga re sa is evident in "kaun jatan so piya ko manau" sung by ustad amir
khan and pandit rasiklal andharia.

So if shudh re becomes vadi in kalavati, how do we distinguish it from
jansambodhini?

Kalavati is rendered beautifully by several artists including the Mishra
brothers and salamat and nazakat ali.

Kalavati is also sung in the film Sur Sangam by the Mishra brothers.

regards,
KP

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[Harish Chinai]

Jansambodhini(not too sure of the spelling)

I believe it is Jansammohini

[Surajit A. Bose]

In article <Zmzh6.14760$%g3.31...@news02.optonline.net>, "Kalpit Pandya"
<kal...@optonline.net> wrote:

>
> Kalavati is also sung in the film Sur Sangam by the Mishra brothers.
>

No. The Kalavati song in that film, "maikaa piyaa bulaave," is by Lata
Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar.

-s

[Kalpit Pandya]

"Surajit A. Bose" <sb...@saintmarys.edu> wrote in message
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I saw this movie long time ago. I am probably wrong, but I think pandit
rajan misra does sing sargam with Lataji in that movie.
Thanks for the correction.

regards,
kalpit pandya
>
> -s

[RAMINDER BHACHU]

Pt Rajan's sons recently visited us and according to them this song was
not sung by the Mishra brothers.

RB

[RAMINDER BHACHU]

According to Pt Ravi Shanker it is Jaisanmohini (a south indian raag).
When Panditji used it in a song that he composed he was not aware that
it was an already established raag. Before naming this raag after
himself, he decided to go into the history and he realised that it was a
raag sung in the south.

[Kalpit Pandya]

Janasammodini is a janya rag derived from the twenty eighth melakarta,
Harikambhoji.

regards,
kalpit pandya

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