Some of my Articles on Music

• Natakurinji
• Unusual Pallavi Themes
• Tyagaraja's Contributions to Art Music, also in PDF format, Appeared in Outlook
• Some contributions of G. N. Balasubramaniam to Modern Carnatic Music
• A Tribute To Tyagaraja
• The Varnas of Ragas Published in Sangeetham, Silver Jubilee Issue, Vol. 19 (2001). Sangeetham is published by the Carnatic Music Association of North America
• Kalyani
• Interview with Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer
• Papanasam Sivan - Inspirations and Expressions
• Khamas and Harikamboji
• GNB: Gamakas No Bar Published in Sangeetham, Vol. 18 (2001).
• Margazhi Bhajanai Published in Sangeetham, Vol. 18 (2001).
• Misattributions and other debates in the compositions of the Trinity - Published in Keertana, Melbourne
• S. Ramanathan: an appreciation - Article Published in KALA
• S. Ramanathan - CD Review Published in KALA
• S. Balachander - CD Review Published in KALA

Most of the following were posted on the Usernet newsgroup rec.music.indian.classical

• Adopting vs Adapting
• Importance of Lyrics - the Zamorin story
• Pallavi Lyrics
• Report on Prorgam on GNB
• S.Balachander on Pallavis
• Dikshitar's Sishya Parampara
• Some "Fraudulent" kritis of Thyagaraja
• Kritis wrongly ascribed to Muttuswami Dikshitar
• G.N.Balasubramaniam and T.L.Venkatrama Iyer - an anecdote
• Some more kAnada compositions
• Tiger Varadachariar on hindOLam etc.
• Season Memoirs
• Hindu article on Percussionists and its followup
• Concert Review - K V Narayanaswamy
• Concert Review - Jayanthy & Padmavathy
• Concert Review - Tanjavur Sankara Ayyar
• Concert Review - Sanjay Subramaniam at Boston
• Concert Review - Nithyashri
• Response to an article on Papanasam Sivan
• Response to an article on S. N. Ratanjankar
• Response to an article on T. K. Rangachari
• Response to an article on Dikshitar and Raga Mudras
• Pre-trinity Tamil Composers

Miscellaneous

• A letter to SRUTI
• Lyrics of a Telugu Padam - English Translation by A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman
  

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