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Charulatha Mani is a leading Carnatic music vocalist and cine playback singer and with a huge fan following in India and abroad. Gifted with a rich, melodious voice, and amazing creativity she has a vast repertoire of compositions of various genres, and this has made her one of the most popular and renowned artistes of today.
In Carnatic music, Neraval also known as Niraval or Sahitya Vinyasa is the elaboration and improvisation of melody for a particular line. Usually, just one or two lines of text from the song (from the anupallavi or charanam part of the kriti) are sung repeatedly, but with improvised elaborations. [1]
Revati is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is an audava rāgam (or owdava rāgam, meaning pentatonic scale). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes).
On the other hand, the lyrics (sahitya) of these compositions are entirely Indian and consistent with the rest of the stotra-literature, or other songs addressed to similar deities. [ 1 ] Sometimes the name "nottuswaram" is used to refer to other compositions based on Western notes, not necessarily by Muthuswami Dikshitar.
Besides studying with his father, he was also a disciple of Melattur Sama Dikshitar. Maharajapuram Santhanam was also a distinguished composer. He wrote many songs on Lord Murugan and Kanchi Shankaracharya, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Swamigal (Maha Periyavar). He was the principal of Ramanathan College in Sri Lanka. [4]
Charukesi scale with Shadjam at C. It is the 2nd rāgam in the 5th chakra Bana.The mnemonic name is Bana-Sri.The mnemonic phrase is sa ri gu ma pa dha ni. [1] Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
Vakulabharanam scale with shadjam at C. It is the 2nd rāgam in the 3rd chakra Agni.The mnemonic name is Agni-Sri.The mnemonic phrase is sa ri ga ma pa dha ni. [1] Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
She has also written songs with more than one language in the same song. It is called Manipravalam in Tamil. Her works have been published in two volumes under the title Geetamala. Her lyrics have been set to music by various masters such as Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, V. V. Sadagopan, S. Ramanathan, T. N. Seshagopalan, and others. [2]