MMI: Viriboni Bhairavi RaagaVarnam

MMI rendition of viriboni

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Music

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• MMI
• MSS
• Viriboni
• Bhairavi
• Madurai
• Mani
• Iyer

[sasa110]

I have a question, what does sarvalaghu mean?

[ANUGATI]

as i understand it, singing several sangathis that have different combination of allowed swaras of the raga, without elaborating on any particluar set is sarva(several/all)laghu(light-­as in lightly touching on all without heavy elaborations).

This gives a complete/overall picture of the raga rather than one particular shade.

The erudite can probably give a more specific definition.

-m

[ifishalone]

What would have been cool is if you had also posted the swarams as rendered here while your were at it. Managing that would have been a true feat :D. Good one!

[ANUGATI]

that is a weekend project. i did this in the morning before i left for office - the bigger difficulty is getting the swarams - mmi has some added sarvalaghus that i need my carnatic literate friends to interpret - thanks for the comment.

[arbir]

@sasa110

Sarvalagu as i have heard is in the context of sarvalagu swaras.

Madurai Mani was famous for singing sarvalagu swaras when rendering kalpana swaram.

it basically means, singing notes without any note being long or elongated.

so as per normal singing speed, one sings, 4 notes per beat.

if you keep up to this 4 notes per beat and not sing, any long notes, then its called singing sarvalagu swaram.

[katakam52]

singing 4 notes per beat is sarvalaghu such as sa sa ri ri - ri ga ma pa - ni ni dha pa. elongated notes like saa ri ga (which still make one beat) are not permitted. madurai mani iyer and semmangudi srinivasier were experts at singing sarvalaghu. it is quite strenuous to do over a longer period. viri boni varnam is full of sarvalaghu

[worlddominator62]

@ANUGATI

If I understand correctly, you are half correct, however it does not just imply singers.

Mridangam very often uses sarva lagu during accompanyment and even in thani. It is pretty much the basic pattern that underlines that nadai of the thalam. So, if you have chathusra nadai, it would be 1234 1234 1234 and so on. If it is Thisra it is 123 123 123.

You can hear the mridangist playing it in the beginning playing "na dhim dhim na na dhim dhim na" "1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4". 

[arbir]

@sasa110

singing 4 notes per beat is sarvalagu.

[sukkot54]

it will be nice if for the even more carnatically uneducated that you define , in parens, following the terms, what they mean.

like korvai (long held notes) or something like that.

thanks v.m. that will help us all learn even more.

thanks v.m for the great post of MMI

[jagadeeswaranj]

to my understanding, sarvalaghu is signing swaras without much kanakku. you do not sing swaras fitting them into korvais. rather, u use simple rhythmic phrases to fit your swaras.