![]() ![]() Ganesha song because he's considered the remover of obstacles so it is customary to invoke him for a successful concert. A varnam is a "beginner" piece and acts as a good warm up for the musician. ![]() ![]() If the musician decides to sing both, it will usually be a varnam followed by the ganesha song. You can imagine a concert to be almost like a mountain/plateau where the introduction slowly build up, the main course maintains that high altitude and the culmination makes way for a beautiful descent.Īs mentioned every concert usually starts either with invokation to Ganesha or a Varnam or both. Unlike Movies (or some western recitals), the grand finale is not really at the end of a Carnatic Concert, it occurs in the middle. Culmination is the last part where the concert is nearing the end. While it is common to see main pieces sung in these ragas, some musicians have taken up rare ragas to do the main piece as well. Some of common ragas in this category are Shakarabharanam, Mohanam, Kalyani, Karaharpriya, Shanmukhapriya, Todi, Kambhoji, Simmedramadyamam. These are usually in ragas with a lot of scope for improvisation. The Main Course usually consists of 1 or 2 main pieces that the musician elaborates and shows his/her mastery of the piece/raga etc. Introductions consists of invokation pieces on Ganesha, Varnam, a small song, a slightly longer song in a "deeper" raga etc. ![]() This by no means is bounding.įor the purpose of this post I give below 2 links So you can use that as a reference to understand the structure.Īny concert can be divided into three parts - Introduction, Main Course, Culmination. Below, I present a more or less accepted structure. This means that any attempt at "defining the structure" will be incomplete at best. Unlike Western classical where the structure is more or less rigid, Carnatic music gives a lot of creative freedom to the musician. We were recently at a Carnatic concert and while he enjoyed the music, he couldn't quite grasp the structure of the concert so I promised him that I will write a post about it explaining everything.ĭISCLAIMER: As I have noted in several other posts, a vast majority of Carnatic rendition is manodharma music which literally means "that which feels right to the heart". I thought I had already written about this earlier but for some reason I cannot find it so no harm in writing once more. ![]()
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