A Tribute

To the People: This piece of blog is an attempt to see through the author's spectacles to explore the divine genre of music under a naivette's eyes.

This piece of blog is dedicated to the divine genre of music that rejuvenated my attitudes for music. I am talking about the Classical music evolved in India that dates back to the 15th Century.

Carnatic Music......


Few years back, let us check out the kind of conversation that took place in my house at an auspicious time of the day say evening 6'o Clock..Characters are me, appa(my dad) n sowmya(my sis)...

Appa(My dad): Sowmyaaaaaaaa!! Its evening 6'o clock and u need to lit up the light in the Puja room and sing a krithi...

Sowmya: Seri paaa...me coming in few mins....
"Sada Paalaya saara saaksha mohanaangi sada....blah blah blah.....S R G P D S.... S D P G R S......"

Appa: Pefect! There shud not be any Madhyamam and Nishadam in Mohanam...blah blah blah......

Me: (I never follow what they are talking about, although I hear some words like Ragam, S R G M P D N S, Adi, Triputa, Rupakam , Aaah!! MS sings it very well )




The above conversation should have given you a fair idea with regard to my background in music. So I belong to this typical South Indian Brahmin family in whose house one can see :

1. Laminations of various incarnations of Sri Maha Vishnu and the Tanjore paintings of Lord Krishna.
2. A bunch of cassettes pertaining to M S , Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, GNB, Maharajapuram and Sudha Raghunathan (anybody unaware of these names, kindly google it out!)
   

Truly, about the music that echoed through the generations in many a Dravidian family, about the music which has exhibitted its therauptical powers in many instances; and last but not the least about the music which actually changed my attitudes.......

More Adventures on this music would continue!