Date: 9 May 93 22:09:29 GMT
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References: <1993May9.203233.27680@news.columbia.edu>
Subject: gaure-vaeLAvalE (was O.S.Thyagarajan in Queens, NY)
In article <1993May9.203233.27680@news.columbia.edu> ss51@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Sundaram Sridharan) writes:
Then he (OST) sang a ragam that I could not figure out. It had shades of Keeravani in the lower sancharas and shades of Kalyani in the upper sancharas. He sang what sounded like a Dikshitar's composition - 'Koumari gowri'. When I looked it up after the concert it was listed under a ragam called 'Gowri velavali'. Does any one know anything about this ragam?
The rAga you want _is_ the 23rd mAELa gAUrE-manoharE. In the asumpUrNa mAELa padhDhathe that dhEkShethar followed, it was called gAUrE-vAELAvaLE---hence the rAga mudhra in the kRthe.
The composition kAUmAre gAUre is by dhEkShethar. The complete lyrics follow.
A point worth noting in this kRthe is that _all_ the words are nouns/adjectives that are declined in the vocative case. There is no verb, subject or object in the kRthe!
Those readers who have heard/watched the svara-rAga-suDhA TV programme by bAlamuralekRShNa will recognize the kRthe as the one he sang for the rAga gAUrE-manoharE.
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