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Malayamarutam
Janya raga of Carnatic music From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Malayamarutam is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale), as it does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes). This scale is used in Hindustani music in recent years by instrumentalists.[1] This is a morning raga[1][2] and regularly used in programmes and functions of the mornings.
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Structure and Lakshana
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Malayamarutam is a symmetric rāgam that does not contain madhyamam. It is a hexatonic scale (shadava-shadava rāgam[2] in Carnatic music classification). Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as what follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on the below notation and terms):
The notes used in this scale are shadjam, shuddha rishabham, antara gandharam, panchamam, chathusruthi dhaivatham and kaisiki nishadam. Malayamarutam is considered a janya rāgam of Chakravakam, the 16th Melakarta rāgam, though it can be derived from Ramapriya also, by dropping madhyamam.
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Popular compositions
Malayamarutam is a pleasing scale, but has only a few compositions in classical music. It has been used to score film music as well. Here are some popular kritis composed in Malayamarutam:
- Dhanyudevvado by Patnam Subramania Iyer
- Manasa Etulorthune by Tyagaraja
- Padmanabha Palitebha by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal
- Karpaga Manohara by Papanasam Sivan
- Karunaanidiye Eesha and Smarane Onde by Purandara Dasa
- Thedi Kandene by Oothukkadu Venkata Kavi
- Anumane Saamikindha by Arunachala Kavi
- Dayai Puriya by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai
- Chandiran Oli by Subramania Bharati
- Navaratna Vilasa by Kalyani Varadarajan
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Film Songs
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Related rāgams
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rāgam.
Scale similarities
- Valaji is a rāgam which does not have shuddha rishabham in both ascending and descending scales compared to Malayamarutam. Its ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa structure is S G3 P D2 N2 S : S N2 D2 P G3 S
- Rasikaranjani is a ragam that does not have the nishadham in both arohana and avarohana compared to Malayamarutam.
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Notes
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References
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