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UNAKKAGA YELLAM UNAKKAGA - FUSION MUSIC.

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:51 pm    Post subject: UNAKKAGA YELLAM UNAKKAGA - FUSION MUSIC. Reply with quote

UNNAKKAGA ELLAM UNNAKKAGA’ IN THE MOVIE ‘PUDHAYAL’

THIS IS A FUSION SONG BY OUR GREAT MASTER. I SHALL EXPLAIN.

THERE IS A CONCEPT CALLED ‘JUGAL BANDHI’ WHICH THE IS RENDERING OF TWO DIFFERENT STYLES IN A PROGRAMME. FOR INSTANCE A CARNATIC MUSCIAN AND A HINDUSTANI MUSICIAN WOULD PERFORM A JUGALBANDHI IN THEIR RESPECTIVE STYLE.

INFACT OUR MASTER HAS COMPOSED ONE ‘JUGAL BANDHI’ TYPE OF SONG IN THE MOVIE ‘THAVAPPUDALVAN’ THE SONG BEING ‘ULAGIN MUDALISAI TAMIZH ISAIYE’. THE JUGALBANDJI WOULD BE PERFORMED BY TMS IN CARATIC STYLE AND BY PBS IN HINDUSTANI STYLE. THIS TYPE IS CALLED AS JUGALBANDHI. THIS ASPECT COULD BE CLEARLY DISTINGUISHED EVEN THOUGH THE SINGERS PICK UP DIFFERENT RAAGAS FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE STYLE FOR A SAME JUGALBANDHI.


BUT THIS SONG IS NOT A JUGALBANDHI TYPE. THIS IS FUSION MUSIC.. WHAT FUSION? IT FUSES TWO RAAGAS IN THE SAME SONG. THE RAAGAS ARE ‘SANGARABARANAM’ AND ‘SARUKESI’.

BUT THERE IS ONE MORE FUSION. THAT IS HE HAS MIXED THE STYLE OF ‘TAPANGUTTHU’ AND ‘WESTERN’ STYLE MELODY AND RHYTHM FLOW.

I SHALL EXPLAIN HOW IT IS FUSED.

THE SONG STARTS WITH A WESTERN STYLE NOTATION. THEN THE ‘TAPPANGUTHU’ STYLE RHYTHM AND MELODY TAKES OVER. THEN THE PALLAVI STARTS WITH THE ‘TAPPANGUTHU’ STYLE.

‘UNNAKKAGA ELLAM UNNAKKAGA INDHA UDALUM UYIRUM OTTI IRUPPADHU UNNAKKAGA’

THIS LINE IS SET IN THE RAAGA ‘SANKARABARANAM’
THE ACTUAL SWARAMS COMES IN THE RAAGA ‘SANKARABARANAM’ ARE

‘SA, RI2, GA2, MA1, PA, DA2, NI2, SA’

NOW THE LINE
‘EDHUKKAGA KANNE EDHUKKAGE IPPADI YETTI YETTI IRUPPADHU YEDHUKKAGA’

THIS LINE IS SET IN THE RAAGA ‘SARUKESI’

THE ACTUAL SWARAMS COMES IN THE RAAGA ‘SARUKESI’ ARE

‘SA, RI2, GA2, MA1, PA, DA1, NI1, SA’

YOU CAN SENSE THE CHANGE OF TUNE WHEN YOU HEAR THESE TWO LINES.

BUT WHY THE SECOND LINE IS SET IN THE RAAGA ‘SARUKESI?.

FOR THAT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION. THE SITUATION IS THAT THE COMEDIAN ACTOR CHADRABABU WANTED TO CONVEY HIS LOVE TO THE HEROIN. SO HE KEEPS HER PHOTO IN FRONT OF HIM AND SINGS THIS SONG. AS PER THE MOOD OF THE COMEDIAN HE STARTS WITH THE TUNE IN SANKARABARANAM. BUT AFTER THE FIRST LINE IS DELIVERED HE FEELS THAT PROBABILIY THE GIRL MAY NOT FALL IN LINE (MADIYA MATENGUDHUPPA!). SO HE STARTS THE NEXT LINE IN SOBER STYLE (ACTUALLY MEANING “KENJUDAL’. THE SWARAM ‘DA1’ AND 'NI1' WHEN CHANGED FROM ‘SANKARABARANAM’ RAAGAM GIVES A SHARP EFFECT TO THE MELODY BECAUSE IN HE RAAGA SHANKARABARANAM THE SWARAM ARE 'DA2' AND 'NI2'. SO YOU HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRST LINE.
I STRONGLY FEEL THAT OUR MASTER WOULD HAVE NOTICED THIS LINE AND WANTED TO GIVE THE ABOVE EFFECT. SO HE TURENED TOWARDS ‘DA1’ AND WENT THRO ‘NA1’ THEREBY GETTING IN TO THE RAAGA ‘SARUKESI’ WHICH GIVES THE SHARP OR OPPOSITE EFFECT. I WANT TO EMPHASISE THAT IT IS THE LINE “EDUKKAKA’ HAS GIVEN HIM THE HOOK TO GO FOR THE RAAGA ‘SARUKESI’. OUR MASTER NEVER KEEPS THE RAAGA IN MIND IN NORMAL SITUATION. HE ALWAYS PRODUCE SOUNDS FOR THE WORDS. THE SOUND HAS TO CONVEY THE MOOD OR SIMPLY CALL 'BHAVAM'. THIS IS HIS GREATEST STRENGTH.

AFTER THE SECOND LINE AGAIN HE GETS BACK TO THE RAAGA SANKARABHARANAM. WHY ? SEE THE LINE AND FEEL FOR YOURSELVES.

THIS IS HOW THE ENTIRE SONG INCLUDING THE CHARANAM IS COMPOSED.

NOW THIS SHOWS THAT THE TWO RAAGAS ARE FUSED TOGETHER IN A SINGLE SONG ITSELF WHICH IS AMAZING. IF IN A SINGLE SONG MULTI RAAGAS CAN BE COMPOSED. THEY ARE CALLED ‘RAAGAMALIGA’. BUT EVEN IN A RAAGAMALIGA STYLE THE INDIVIDUAL PALLAVI AS WELL AS CHARANAM WOULD BE IN DIFFERENT RAAGAS. BUT THIS SONG HAS ONE LINE OF THE PALLAVI IS IN ONE RAAGA AND THE OTHER LINE IN ANOTHER RAAGA.

SO HOW CAN WE CALL THIS?. 'CONFUSION"
RAAGA FUSION?

NOW REGARDING THE OTHER FUSION. IT IS ACTUALLY THE STYLE ITSELF.

THE SONGS STARTS WITH A BGM IN A WESTERN STYLE AND COMES BACK TO THE SOUTH INDIAN ‘TAPPANKUTHU’ MELODY. YOU WOULD NOTICE THE RHYTHM FOLLOWS THIS PATTERN TO GIVE MAXIMUM EFFECT.

THE BGM BEFORE THE 1ST CHARANAM IS IN THE TAPANKUTHU STYLE. WHERE AS THE BGM BEFORE THE 2ND CHARANAM IS IN WESTERN STYLE. THERE WOULD BE ONLE STRINGS LINK BIT (COMBINATION OF VIOLINS) TO CONNCET THE BGM TO THE CHARANAM WHICH ENABLES THE SINGER TO START THE CHARANAM TUNE EASILY.

SO APART FROM THE RAAGA FUSION YOU ALSO SEE A STYLE FUSION.

IS IT CLEAR OR TOTAL CONFUSION?

SEE YOU ALL


N Y MURALI

PL NOTE:
TO MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING , THERE IS ONE MORE BEAUTY WHICH HAS HAPPENED IN THIS FUSION. CAN ANY ONE FIND OUR WHAT?

I WILL GIVE A CLUE. IT IS ABOUT MATHEMATIC NUMBER SERIES.
GET BACK TO ME IF YOU HAVE FOUND OUT.
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