Originally Posted by Vicky
I have always highlighted Maestro Illaiyaraaja's understanding of toying around with a Major key and its relative minor seamlessly. Usually if the Pallavi is in Major the Charanam switches to relative minor and vice versa.
Today's selection is a dummy guide to this phenomenon executed in all of just 4 bars. This is the theme music of the classic 'Oruvar Vaazhum Aalayam'.
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This music sounds incredibly simple. But its the vision of charting the trajectory of a piece of music first and then setting all other tracks according to it, which makes me go 'Wow'. Not a single note that you hear in this bit is composed independently. They are well conceived knowing what their place in the whole 4 bars. This school of thought in composing is simply not to be found anymore..
This is the reason whenever I look around, I see no match for Maestro Ilaiyaraaja.