Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Break the rules - II


It has been quite a big gap since my last blog. With the economic slowdown, my work load refuses to slow down!! But, being busy seems to be a good thing these days..So, I have no complaints.

In one of my previous posts, I have discussed how Raaja handled one of the most difficult raaga "Kanakangi" in the movie "Sindhu Bhairavi". "Sindhu Bhairavi" movie is a milestone with many experimentations that I will talk about in my future posts.

Today, I wanted to talk about other Melakartha Raaga and how Raaja handled it. Subhapanthuvarali raaga is 45th Mela Raaga and its scale goes like this: S R1 G2 M2 P D1 N3 S

This raaga has an inherent flavor of sorrow and grief. Have you heard "Vaigarayil Vaigai Karaiyil" from "Payanangal Mudivathillai"? Another classic example for the usage of this raaga is "Enna Enna Kanavu Kandaayo" from the movie Valli. As you can notice, this raaga brings the grief to the forefront. How does Nava Rasas get their due representation with these 7 swaras, I wonder sometimes?

S R1 G3 M1 P D1 N3 S denotes the peace to the forefront in the form of Mayamalavagowlai and S R1 G2 M2 P D1 N3 S in the form of Subhapanthuvarali brings sorrow and grief!! Huh!

In this Subhapanthuvarali scale, Raaja did an experiementation to score for a romantic and seducing number. Waraeh Wah!!

Here you go:


I will let you decide, if it was successful or not. But, sure.. he did break the rules.

Again, did you notice something interesting in the scale? Except for Ni3 (Sa and Pa, of course), all of the other keys are black keys!! Has it anything to do with the emotion that is hidden in the scale? I don't know..

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice post. Raaja always experiments with such scales.

I don't think the black keys are the reason for the particular emotion. In another shruthi (for example with F# as Sa)it may not be black keys but more of white keys. The reason might basically be due to the position of the notes with respect to Sa and Pa. For example, the scales / ragas with notes Ri1 (closest to Sa) and Dha1 (closest to Pa) invariable have an hidden grief feeling within them.

Emjay said...

Hi Ramesh,

I agree that it is more of the position relative of Sa and Pa that makes the difference.

But, yesterday coincidentally again, I was trying to play "Malarndhum Malaraadha" - and I noticed again the same pattern..

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