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Nathabhairavi, Paras and a newly created ragam chittaswarams for some of his compositions. Two “Suraranjani”. He handled common talams for his examples will suffice here. ‘Ra ra rajeevalochana’ . However, he has composed a in in and ‘Sri Chamundeshwari’ in ‘Lakshmisha‘talam with 108 aksharams and . It is noteworthy that Mys. V elevated the another tillana in ‘’ talam with 72 stature of minor ragams like (Bhajare re aksharams. manasa), Behag (Bhaveyaham Raghu-veeram), Poochi made close to 100 compositions.A few of and (Brochevarevarura) by composing them have nice chittaswarams too. For example, major kritis in them. Note these kritis were both ‘Saraguna palimpa’ (Kedaragoula) and composed at the turn of the 20th century, even ‘Anudinamunu gavumaiyya’ (Begada) have been before these ragams were popularly rendered. embellished with beautiful chittaswarams. (Poochi has used both Behag and Khamas for composing javalis only). Another interesting Some of his popular kritis include: aspect is that Mys.V introduced kakali nishadam Parama pavana Rama –Purvikalyani for his Khamas instead of the conventional kaishiki Saraguna palimpa- Kedaragoula nishadam as in ’s Khamas. The Khamas Anudinamunu gavumaiyya- Begada Neekelana edanichalamu- Devamanohari of Mys.V is equally appealing too. Mys.V has also Samaja varada neeku- Suddasaveri composed a “Srimadadi Tyagaraja Poochi composed a kriti – ‘Sadguru Swamiki’ in guruvaram” in in praise of Tyagaraja. Reetigoula’ in praise of Tyagaraja. He published his kritis with the assistance of Salem Doraiswamy Iyengar. People have always wondered how the prefix ‘Poochi’ was attached to his name. Poochi was a short man and he used to walk fast and so he was nicknamed ‘Poochi’ which means an insect in Tamil (the little man moved around so fast like an insect). Mys.V was born in Mysore in 1865. Among Mys.V compositions (which numberabout 200), the more Mysore Vasudevacharya popular ones are Mys. V trained a number of disciples Brochevarevarura- Khamas ( Y o g a N a r a s i m h a m , V . R a m a r a t h n a m , Ra ra rajeevalochana – Mohanam N . C h e n n a k e s h a v a i a h , C . R a n g a i a h , Sri Chamundeshwari- Bilahari B.K.Padmanabha Rao, C.R.Mani, D.Pashupathi) Marimari vachuna- Kamboji both in Mysore and Kalakshetra, Madras. He was Bhajare manasa- Karnataka honored by the Music Academy with a title of (Abheri) Sangeetha Kalanidhi. Na chai vida vakura- Natakuranji Both these illustrious composers, Poochi and Mys.V has used many common ragams plus Mys.V have used their own names as mudras for uncommon ragams like (new their compositions. r a g a m ) , M e g h a r a n j a n i , P u s h p a l a t i k a , The Author is a CMANA member, Shuddasalavi etc. He has composed captivating author and long-time supporter

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