Making friends with ragas – Let’s start with Yaman (Part I)
Make friends with Ragas starting with Raga Yaman
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 6 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 7: Darbari Kanada
The seventh instalment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 9 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra – 5: Ragamala and Desi Jugalbandi
The fifth installment of Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 4: Maand
The fourth installment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 5 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 3: Bhairavi
The is the third installment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 2: Piloo
The second installment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 5 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 1: Puriya Dhanashree
The first installment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 7 min
Classical Music - A Bit of Basic Stuff
People often ask, how do you identify the raga a song or a piece of music is based on? Here is a little Music Theory.
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 7 min
Classical Music in Films, a Bit of History – Contd
This is a brief history of the use of Indian Classical Music in Hindi Films (Part 2)
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 23, 2020
- 5 min
This is a brief history of the use of Indian Classical Music in Hindi Films
Let us start with a bit of history of Hindi film music and its relationship with classical music. First a small caveat: This is intended to
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 16, 2020
- 4 min
Sangeet Baiju Bawra - 6: Malkauns
The sixth installment about Baiju Bawra
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 10, 2020
- 3 min
Majestic Darbari - Part I
Raag Darbari "इश्क मुझ को नहीं वहशत ही सही मेरी वहशत तेरी शोहरत ही सही हम भी दुश्मन तो नहीं हैं अपने गैर को तुझ से मोहब्बत ही सही" (Ishq mujhko nahi vahashat hi sahi Meri vahashat teri shoharat hi sahi Hum bhi dushman to nahi hai apne Gair ko tujh se mhabbat hi sahi) These lines from a famous ghazal by Mirza Ghalib – in a sense, they display the uneasiness in a forlorn lover’s mind, but could equally be a stand-in for Raag Darbari, a raag that can display the interplay of myr
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Nandu Kulkarni
- Oct 10, 2020
- 3 min
Majestic Darbari - Part II
The next song that we will see is of a different mould. For one thing, one literally has to seek out Raag Darbari in it; Secondly, the image of the raag as a stately, sedate one would need a major overhaul in this song! (This of course happens with many raag.) The song is from the (older) movie ‘Azad’. Listen carefully to the song ‘Kitana haseen hai ye mausam, kitana haseen safar hai’ and locate the fleeting glimpses of Raag Darbari: If a composer were to first think of a raa
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