#CARNATIC MUSIC LESSONS IN NJ FULL#

The Laghu has varying number of units indicated by the 'Jaathi' or class of the thaalam. The Anudhrutham is always a single unit and the action is a clap (or beat).

The Dhrutham is always 2 units of time and in singing the action (kriya) associated with it is a clap (or beat) and a wave (turning up the palm). The commonly used thaalams have three 'angams' - Laghu, Dhrutham and Anudhrutham. To establish the rhythmic frame work ('Thaalam'), vertical lines are drawn, to separate the 'angams' (components) of a rhythmic cycle. The notation is written on one line and the lyric is written on the line below with words of lyric aligned to their corresponding notes. Samples of notation in Tamil and English are given below.

Generally the notation is used to learn a composition rather than play it by sight and some of the practices in writing notation may be attributed to this. Hence the notation does not prescribe the absolute pitches in which the composition is to be sung. The artiste has the liberty to choose any pitch as the tonic and the note sa will then refer to that pitch. In carnatic music sa (shadjam) is the tonic.

#CARNATIC MUSIC LESSONS IN NJ FULL#

(If anyone wants to reproduce the contents of this page, in full or in part, in any website or other places the source of the document with the name of the author M.Subramanian should be mentioned.)Д¬arnatic music notation is written using the solfa 'sa ri ga ma pa da ni' in textual form unlike the staff notation which is graphic.

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