----------------------------------------------- karnATik kritique ----------------------------------------------- Welcome to karnATik kritique Issue #15! This newsletter is brought to you by the karnATik website at http://www.karnatik.com or http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2 Forward this to your friends and they can sign up too online! Remember, every visit to karnATik sends a penny to charity! You are signed up for this newsletter because you subscribed at the website or emailed us for site information. For removal instructions, please scroll to the end of this newsletter. ----------------------------------------------- QUOTE OF THE MONTH: After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley Vol.4, Issue 1 2004 karnATik this month brings you continuations of all the things you love - articles, stories, and of course, lyrics! 1. NEW LOOK! - STORY: PART III - LYRICS AND AUDIO FOR A SONG! 2. ARTICLE 3. TRIVIA 4. LATEST LYRICS (20 MORE!) ############################################### 1. NEW FEATURES * A NEW LOOK! karnATik has a new look! The navigation box at the top should help you get where you want a little faster. OR you can still use the Popular Pages box to get where you want. Simply choose the page you want and click Go. You'll find the page a little more compact and you should no longer get errors on your page. Also, now when you click a link you go to the real address of the page for your own reference and for better bookmarking. Remember, you can reach the links page at links.karnatik.com, the lyrics page at lyrics.karnatik.com, the ragas page at links.karnatik.com, the lyrics page at lyrics.karnatik.com, the ragas page at ragas.karnatik.com, the composers page at composers.karnatik.com, and the glossary at glossary.karnatik.com. Let us know what you think, too! * NEW! LYRICS AND AUDIO PAIRED! This month, a very popular singer brings you a Tyagaraja song! Listen to the song, read the lyrics, ponder the meaning, all at once. The song is vinaayakuni valEnu in madyamaavati, aadi taaLam by Tyaagaraaja, sung by Neyveli Santanagopalan. Also, check out the raga info on madyamaavati by clicking the name of the raga, or find out more about the composer by clicking on his name (and reading this issue's article)! Click to read and listen! http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c2701.shtml * New cartoon! Another new kartoon in our Carnatic cartoons, to bring you the lighter side of music. http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/kartoons.shtml * Raga Rasas Find out what each of the raga essences represents and what ragas are in each. Do you know what ragas bring out veera rasa? Find out: http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/rasas.shtml * Music is forever - part III Our continuing story goes on, with the 3rd part. Get hooked! http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/story.shtml * Downloads! A new page of all the downloads has been created. Now you can check out all our downloads and access them directly. http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/downloads.shtml * More and more Small updates on the site: notations for 2 more geetams, raga lakshanas for kalyani and kharaharapriya, updated composition list, and more meanings. Keep looking and visiting. http://www.karnatik.com * What's new? If you've missed an issue or just want to see what's new, just check the what's new section to see what's been updated. http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/whatsnew.shtml FEATURED LINKS Bhagavad Gita Online http://www.bhagavad-gita.us/bhagavad-gita-in-audio.htm Audio and text of the Bhagavad Gita. Baraha http://www.baraha.com Translate karnATik's lyrics to Kannada and Sanskrit languages. Check the what's new page for all the new features. http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/whatsnew.shtml 2. ARTICLE Last time, M.G. Vasudevan continues with a detailed description of Papanasam Shivan's Enna Thavam. Read the article at: http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/article009.shtml Send us your comments on the article! http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/contact.shtml 3. TRIVIA Answers from last time: 1) T V Shankaranarayanan 2) Mahesh Dattani's "Morning Raga" 3) 40 And here are few more trivia for you to puzzle over until next time: a. When and by whom was the Tiruvaiyar festival begun? b. When was the Madras Music Academy auditorium opened? c. Which two Sangitha Kalanidhis died on the same day, hours apart? 4. LATEST LYRICS 20 more songs are listed below, mainly by Tiruvottiyur Tyagayya: See all lyrics at http://lyrics.karnatik.com http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3001.shtml inta paraakElaraa (varNam) - naaTTai - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3002.shtml intamODi sEya (varNam) - saaranga - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3003.shtml kaliki ninnE (varNam) - saavEri - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3004.shtml kaamaakshi ninnE (varNam) - yadukula kaambhOji - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3005.shtml kamsaantaka - curnikavinOdhini - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3006.shtml kaapaaDu gaNanaatha - dhanyaasi - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3007.shtml karuNimpa idi (varNam) - sahaanaa - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3008.shtml kOri bhajincidi - poosha kalyaaNi - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3009.shtml kOri vaccitinayya - shree - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3010.shtml maapati naamamu - kaapi jingaLa - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3011.shtml maaTi maaTiki - kuntalam - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3012.shtml matiraakshi neepai (varNam) - mukhaari - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3013.shtml nannu brOva - maruvadhanyaasi - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3014.shtml nenaru meeraganu - cakravaakam - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3015.shtml nenarunci nannElukOra (varNam) - dhanyaasi - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3016.shtml neramellanu - naayaki - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3017.shtml nee divya - shuruTTi - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3018.shtml ninnE kOriyunnadi (varNam) - kaanaDaa - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3019.shtml ninnu caala (varNam) - kEdaaram - TT http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/c3020.shtml pagavaanivale - aThaaNaa - TT Here's to a bright and sunny spring! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% karnATik kritique is brought to you by http://www.karnatik.com (and by the letter K) To subscribe, visit http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/mailinglist.shtml OR send email to karnatik-subscribe@topica.com from your email address. 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