Recently a friend of mine inquired if the ghazal Rang pairahan ka by Mehdi Hassan is based on any Hindustani raga. The melodic contours here ally with Raga Dhanakoni Kalyan, a recent raga conceived by the late C.R. Vyas. The swaras are drawn from the melakarta Vachaspati. The raga is developed by eliminating the dhaivat…
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New material has been added to the Mallikarjun Mansur folder in the Vijaya Parrikar Library: Ragas Ahir Bhairav and Sukhiya Bilawal.
Two new recordings – Ragas Hindol Bahar and Kaunshi Kanada – have been placed in the Krishnarao Phulambrikar folder at the Vijaya Parrikar Library.
I last spoke to Ramashreya Jha “Ramrang” on Dec 28, 2008, when I called him from California. He was on his hospital bed in Kolkota, bracing for cardiac surgery scheduled a few hours later. He did not come out of it alive, and passed away on the morning of Jan 1, 2009, India time….
Welcome to the Rajan Parrikar Music Archive. The resources of this repository are consolidated in the Vault. The Vijaya Parrikar Library is now an integral part of this archive. The exegetic monographs in The Ragas of Hindustani Music folder address the gamut of ragas and raga groups found in the contemporary praxis of North…