[email protected] (Ramasubramanian Ramakrishnan) wrote: >Let's start the long awaited rAgA of the month series with rAgA kAnadA: >Some popular compositions: > >kritis:Apart from kritis, kAnaDA also has several representatives in other musical styles.
As is customary, it is nice to begin with varNams. There are atleast two varNams (possibly more) in this rAgA. The ata tALa varNam, nEra nammiti of rAmanAdapuram SrinivAsa ayyangAr is often heard in concerts. There is also a nice Adi tALa varNam of tiruvotRiyUr tyAgayyar starting with ninnE kOri.
Apart from the kritis already listed, there are also compositions by "garbhapUrivAsA" - kamalAmbA, vAsudEvAcAr - praNamata SrI, GNB - nIyallAl ini and Sivan - inbamenbadillaiyE, uLLamirangu and kAntimati.
kAnaDA has also been used for padams and jAvaLis. Some which come to my mind are ninnE dhyAna & srIkAnta enarakshitu of purandaradAsA and vAni pondu & chArumati of dharmapuri subbarAyar.
The famous ashtapadi of jayadEvA, nindati chandana, in its "original" (i.e. as it was traditionally sung in Karnatic music, after the (approx.) 17-18th centuries when some of the leading musicians of that time set tunes to all the ashtapadis under the "orders" of the head of the kAnchi math(?) of that time) setting was also in this rAgA. These days one hears it also in darbAri kAnaDA.
There are also a few tiLLAnAs in this rAgA. I have heard one by MDR and another by rAmanAdapuram SrInivAsa ayyangAr.
Ramana
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