thiruvasakam in symphony

Typo. Its 4.37 - 4.57. Give it multiple hearings to be stunned by the movement.

Mayamalavagaula at its best in this song. IR has exploited this ragam to the hilt and I guess he is simply a master in juxtaposing WCM with this scale. HTNI and NBW both had this scale. He has taken this scale to a diff plane in this song.

On second thoughts both the first and second interlude are grand.

First interlude 1.54 - 2.37 ( This the grandest of all I have ever heard). Running to almost 43 secs and finally culminating with a phenomenal movement at 2.30 -2.38. We need to watch for a subtle WCM/Carnatic fusion. In 8 secs he has produced a beauty.

Second interlude 3.30 - 3.54 - Choral arrangement is fantastic at the end. Esp the Indian and WCM which finishes off in a grand style.

Finally I was able to compose myself to write something on Thiruvaasagam!!!
My blog on thiruvaasagam
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Enjoy.

Kupps,
I was pleasantly surprised to see "arangamA nagaruLAnE" in your post...I reacted EXACTLY the same way !!!
Right after that, I played the song again and started off with Raja with the lyrics,
"pachcai mA malai pOl mEni
pavaLa vAi kamalachchengaN
achuthA amararE re..
Ayartham kozhundhE...

ichchuvai thavira...
....
...
aranga mA nagaruLAnE"

Fits more or less well into the tune.

Quite an interesting coincidence.

jaiganes - you have written "it is the confluence of varied musical thoughts in their resonating points and then putting them in the simplest possible context for everyone to comprehend"

I would say "in the simplest possible context for everyone to experience the heightened pleasure of listening"

A slight digression.

http://www.listeningadventures.org/l...nt3_final.html

Hi all,

I am new member here and happy to find all the discussions abt TiS. Like everyone, I also got curious to know the meaning of songs and found it. I have uploaded the meanings of songs sung by Ilayaraja at


http://ta.wikibooks.org/wiki/thiruvasakam

You need to have unicode tamil fonts enabled and UTf-8 encoding to read the above site

The complete compilation of thiruvasakam songs and meaning can be found at the tamil virtual university library at

http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwhomepg.htm

Ravi

ravidreams,

The first link is of great help,Thanks man.

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Originally Posted by tmrrmt

jaiganes - you have written "it is the confluence of varied musical thoughts in their resonating points and then putting them in the simplest possible context for everyone to comprehend"

I would say "in the simplest possible context for everyone to experience the heightened pleasure of listening"

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True indeed!!!

where do i get those fonts? Any pointers ?

http://www.cmw.net/festivalmain.htm - can Toronto fans put up a stall for IR during this festival ?

Thanks