Appreciating Carnatic Music

Lectures

Week 1

1. Lec 01 - The Body of Music YouTube
2. Lec 02 - Music everywhere – finding the classical YouTube
3. Lec 03 - Classical Music – Art Music YouTube
4. Lec 04 - Music through Melody & Music through Harmony YouTube
5. Lec 05 - Musical Material – A Hard Look YouTube
6. Lec 06 - Musical material Mo2 YouTube
7. Lec 07 - Carnatic Music as Raga Music YouTube
8. Lec 08 - Understanding Raga - Part I YouTube

Week 2

9. Lec 09 - Understanding Raga - Part II (Raga and Swara) YouTube
10. Lec 10 - Understanding Raga - Part III A Glimpse into Gamaka (Ornamentation) and Phraseology YouTube
11. Lec 11 - "Swara" in the Sanskrit Textual Tradition YouTube
12. Lec 12 - "Sruti" in Sanskrit Textual Tradition YouTube
13. Lec 13 - Tambura YouTube
14. Lec 14 - Gamaka I YouTube
15. Lec 15 - Gamaka II YouTube
16. Lec 16 - Gamaka III YouTube
17. Lec 17 - Gamakas IV YouTube

Week 3

18. Lec 18 - Raga and Phraseology YouTube
19. Lec 19 - Raga - some basic expectations YouTube
20. Lec 20 - A string of Ragas and a teaser YouTube
21. Lec 21 - Raga in the textual tradition YouTube
22. Lec 22 - Classification of Ragas I YouTube
23. Lec 23 - Classification of Ragas II YouTube
24. Lec 24 - Mela system of classifying raga-s YouTube
25. Lec 25 - Generating the 72 mela-s YouTube
26. Lec 26 - Application of 72 mela YouTube
27. Lec 27 - Katapayadi – Naming the 72 melas YouTube

Week 4

28. Lec 28 - Vivadi – I YouTube
29. Lec 29 - Vivadi – II YouTube
30. Lec 30 - Raga - Circles and Triangles YouTube
31. Lec 31 - Laya: temporal discipline in music. YouTube
32. Lec 32 - Tala – an Introduction to the Concept YouTube
33. Lec 33 - More on Tala and laya YouTube
34. Lec 34 - Aspects of Tala - I YouTube
35. Lec 35 - Aspects of Tala - II YouTube
36. Lec 36 - Aspects of Tala - III YouTube
37. Lec 37 - Aspects of tala – IV YouTube

Week 5

38. Lec 38 - Composition in Carnatic Music YouTube
39. Lec 39 - Varnam – an Introduction YouTube
40. Lec 40 - Varnam and laya intricacies YouTube
41. Lec 41 - Kriti – the premier compositional form in Carnatic music YouTube
42. Lec 42 -Kriti – some basic features YouTube
43. Lec 43 - Precursors to the Kriti YouTube
44. Lec 44 - Bhakti and Carnatic Music: Metaphor, World view and Yearning in Carnatic compositions. YouTube

Week 6

45. Lec 45 - Tanjavur and the Carnatic Trinity YouTube
46. Lec 46 - Tyagaraja, the Vaggeyakara YouTube
47. Lec 47 - Tyagaraja and His Many Moods -I YouTube
48. Lec 48 - Tyagaraja and His Many Moods – II YouTube
49. Lec 49 - Muthuswami Dikshitar – an overview YouTube
50. Lec 50 - Muthuswami Dikshitar – the Sanskirt Scholar and Advaitin YouTube
51. Lec 51 - Muthuswami Dikshitar – Some Other Aspects of his Work. YouTube
52. Lec 52 - Syama Sastri YouTube
53. Lec 53 - Tamil Composers before the trinity YouTube

Week 7

54. Lec 54 - Post trinity Composers YouTube
55. Lec 55 - Swathi Tirunal - the Versatile Royal Composer YouTube
56. Lec 56 - The Romance of Padam and Javali YouTube
57. Lec 57 - Tillana YouTube
58. Lec 58 - Improvisation in Carnatic Music - Alapana YouTube
59. Lec 59 - ALAPANA : Style and Aesthetics YouTube
60. Lec 60 - Neraval and Swaraprastara YouTube
61. Lec 61 - TANAM YouTube
62. Lec 62 - An expostion of Balagopala,a kriti in the rega Bhairavi with alapana, neraval and swaraprastara followed by tani Avartanam YouTube

Week 8

63. Lec 63 - Accompaniment in Carnatic Music - The Violin YouTube
64. Lec 64 - Percussive Accompaniment - the Mridangam YouTube
65. Lec 65 -Subsidiary Accompaniment - Interaction Among Accompanists YouTube
66. Lec 66 - Perscussion MRIDANGAM YouTube
67. Lec 67 - Percussion KANJIRA YouTube
68. Lec 68 - Percussion Ghatam YouTube
69. Lec 69 - Percussion Morsing YouTube
70. Lec 70 - Percussion Korvai and Thani avartanam YouTube
71. Lec 71 - The Typical carnatic Concert And Ragam Tanam Pallavi - RTP YouTube