Ragavardhini (pronounced rāgavardini) has two separate meanings in

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: * a major part of the alapana of a

raga A raga ( ; , ; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a musical mode, melodic mode. It is central to classical Indian music. Each raga consists of an array of melodic structures with musical motifs; and, fro ...

. The performer gives a step-by-step elaboration of the raga, pausing at each major note or

swara Swara () or svara is an Indian classical music term that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, a note, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave, or ''saptanka''. More comprehensively ...

. * the 32nd ''

melakarta Mēḷakartā is a collection of fundamental musical scales ( ragas) in Carnatic music (South Indian classical music). ''Mēḷakartā'' ragas are parent ragas (hence known as ''janaka'' ragas) from which other ragas may be derived. A ''melaka ...

in the

Katapayadi sankhya ''Kaṭapayādi'' system (Devanagari: कटपयादि, also known as ''Paralppēru'', Malayalam: പരല്‍പ്പേര്) of numerical notation is an ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system to depict letters to numerals ...

scheme of

Carnatic music Carnatic music (known as or in the Dravidian languages) is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and southern Odisha. It is o ...

Melakarta

It is the 32nd ''

'' rāgam in the 72 ''melakarta'' rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Rāgachudāmaṇi in

Muthuswami Dikshitar Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar) (, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer, veena player, and a prolific composer of Indian classical music. He was the youngest member of what is re ...

school of Carnatic music.''Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar Keertanaigal'' by Vidwan A Sundaram Iyer, Pub. 1989, Music Book Publishers, Mylapore, Chennai''Ragas in Carnatic music'' by Dr. S. Bhagyalekshmy, Pub. 1990, CBH Publications''Raganidhi'' by P. Subba Rao, Pub. 1964, The Music Academy of Madras

Structure and Lakshana

It is the 2nd rāgam in the 6th ''chakra Ritu''. The mnemonic name is ''Ritu-Sri''. The mnemonic phrase is ''sa ru gu ma pa dha ni''. Its ' structure is as follows (see ''swaras'' in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms): * : * : The notes in this scale are ''shatsruthi rishabham, antara gandharam, shuddha madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham'' and ''kaisiki nishadham''. As it is a ''melakarta'', by definition it is a ''sampurna'' rāga (has all seven notes in ascending and descending scale). It is the ''shuddha madhyamam'' equivalent of '' Jyoti swarupini'', which is the 68th ''melakarta'' scale.

''Janya'' rāgas

''Ragavardini'' has a few minor ''

janya ''Janya'' is a term meaning "derive". In Carnatic (South Indian) music a ''janya raga'' is one derived from one of the 72 '' melakarta'' ragas (fundamental melodic structures). ''Janya'' ragas are classified into various types based on a vari ...

'' rāgas (derived scales) associated with it. See List of ''janya'' rāgas for full list of rāgas associated with ''Ragavardini''.

Compositions

A few compositions are: *''Shvetha Ganapathim'' by

Muthuswamy Dikshitar Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar) (, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer, veena player, and a prolific composer of Indian classical music. He was the youngest member of what is r ...

*''Kalangadhe Maname'' by Koteeswara Iyer *''Ganasudharasame'' by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna *''Thavarizhaippadhu'' by Dr.

Lalgudi Jayaraman Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (17 September 1930 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He is commonly grouped with M.S. Gopalakrishnan and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin trinity of Carnatic mu ...

*''Sundara Vinayaka'' by Dr. T. V. Gopalakrishnan *''Chandrashekharam'' by Ashok Madhav

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Janya Ragam: Swaravardhini

Related rāgas

This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāga. ''Ragavardini's'' notes when shifted using ''

Graha bhedam ''Graha Bhedam'' in Carnatic music is the process (or result of the process) of shifting the Tonic (music), Tonic note (''Śruti (music), śruti'') to another note in the rāgam and arriving at a different rāgam. Its equivalent in Hindustani cl ...

'', yields ''

Varunapriya Varunapriya (pronounced ) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the 24th ''melakarta'' rāgam (parent scale) in the 72 ''melakarta'' rāgam system of Carnatic music. It is called Viravasantam; in Muth ...

melakarta'' rāga, when the shift of

Tonic note In music, the tonic is the first scale degree () of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular ...

is to the ''madhyamam''. See further details and an illustration at '' Graha bhedam on Ragavardini''.

Notes

References

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