[email protected] (Ramasubramanian Ramakrishnan) wrote: >rAgA Hindolam with D2 instead of D1:] > >It is called varamu, also called shuddha hindolam. I have heard >a kriti which goes "thunai purindarul daruna mAdava" of Papanasam >Sivan (?) rendered by T N Seshagopalan and Unnikrishnan. > >I believe that varamu was the hindolam of those days when >St. Thyagaraja composed his "manasuloni marmamulu", which >is rendered in hindolam nowadays. Knowledgeable folks, >please confirm/ correct.This is actually quite controversial. Several people (artists, critics etc) have claimed what you say. But from most sources it seems that there is no tradition of singing hindOLam with the chatuSruti dhaivatam.
I will quote from an article by Tiger Varadachariar in the Journal of the Music Academy, Madras.
"It is worth remembering that neither Dikshitar nor Singarachar nor ancient tradition has assigned to this raga any dha other than suddha, as by its very nature it could not have, as janya of Nata Bhairavi. [Therefore] the present day tendency to sing chatusruti dha finds no warrant either in theory or practice and tends to extingush the melodic identity of the raga.
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We don't know who was primarily responsible for this lapse, but whoever he was, the fashion has reacted disastrously on the individuality of the ragas and defeated the very purpose for which the ragas were named and classified, not to speak of the confusion it has introduced into a subject already overburdened with confusion."
Regards,
Ramana
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