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V 1 ISSN. 0970-3101 tUlje lou n tal of tEljc jHustc jHafrras Devoted to the Advancement of the Science and Art of Music Vol. 82 2011 f ^ n f t r v $ t \ TT^rfiT: *lwRd 7T5T frfgrfh ^TC^II 'I dwell not in Vaikunta, nor in the hearts of Yogins, not in the Sun; (hut) where my Bhaktas sing, there he I, Narada !" Narada Bhakti Sutra EDITOR Pappu Venugopala Rao i I j I l i THE MUSIC ACADEMY MADRAS New No. 168 (Old No. 306), T.T.K. Road, Chennai 600 014. Email [email protected] Website www.musicacademymadras.in \ Copyright © The Music Academy Madras December 2011 oJ Ip Statement about ownership and other particulars about newspaper "JOURNAL OF THE MUSIC ACADEMY MADRAS" to be published in the first issue every year after the last day of February Form IV (See Rule 8) 1. Place of Publication - New No. 168, T.T.K. Road Chennai 600 014 2. Periodicity of its publication - Annual 3. Printer's Name - Mr. N. 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Editor Pappu Venugopala Rao. ^1_______________________________ ____________________________________________ P 3 CONTENT 1. Our Contributors 7 2. Editor’s Note 11 3. 84th Annual Conference & Concerts - December 2010 Welcome Address by Sri. N. Murali, President 13 EDITORIAL BOARD Inaugural address by Sri. Shiv Nadar 20 Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao (Editor) Speech of Bombay Sisters 24 Sri. N. Murali, President (Ex. Officio) Welcome address by Sri. N. Murali, President at the Sadas 30 Dr. Malathi Rangaswami 34 Dr. Chithra Madhavan Speech by Hon’ble Sri. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Dr. S.A.K. Durga Awardees 2010 35 Dr. N. Ramanathan Note on Dance Festival 41 Sri. V. Sriram 4. Proceedings of the Conference 2010 42 Mrs. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan 5. The dhrupad compositional form and the krti-s 59 of Muttusvami Dik$itar - A comparative study Kanniks Kannikeswaran 6. Music manuscripts and Manavalli Ramakrsna Kavi 75 V. Premalatha 7. Harikatha in the four States of South India 84 Premeela Gurumurthi 8. Textual Traditions in Indian Classical Dances 93 Priyashri V. Rao 5 ----------------- THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2011 • VOLUME 82 -------------- THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2011 • VOLUME 82 qJ b 9. Pathantara-s in SrTkrsnalTlatarariginT of Sri Narayana Tlrtha 112 N. Bhairavi OUR CONTRIBUTORS 10. Form and Process in the Tani Avartanam: a non-Indian insider’s 118 N. BHAIRAVI is a disciple of Smt. and Sri K.R. Kedaranathan. An Electrical and perspective Electronics Engineer she later did her Masters degree and M. Phil in Music. She has David Nelson recently submitted her doctoral thesis on ‘The Srikrsnalilatarangini of Sri Narayana Tirtha’ to the University of Madras, working under the research fellowship from the UGC. She 11. Flute and its playing techniques 133 is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture ‘Scholarship to young artistes’. She is an A-grade Mala Chandrasekar artiste of the All India Radio, Chennai and performs with her sister N. Malavi. 12. Harmony, Myriad Shades of Passion and Religion of Man : A Tagore 147 Prof. DAVID P NELSON Artist in Residence, Music Department, Wesleyan University: Symphony 2001 -present, has been a student of Carnatic Music under many Gurus such as, Mrudangam: Somali Panda Sri C.S. Sankarasivam, Sri Ramnad V. Raghavan, Sri T. Ranganathan and Vocal Music: Sangita Kalanidhi S. Ramanathan, Jon B. Higgins and Sangita Kalanidhi T. Viswanathan. 13. Mallari 157 He did his Ph.D from Wesleyan University in 1991 in Ethnomusicology. He accompanied B.M. Sudaram many well-known artists, including: Sangita Kalanidhi T. Viswanathan, Sangita Kalanidhi 14. LHTP2§lljl6OT Uni_6D QLDLL©®»OT <9lQJIT @ujrbfl5lujui(2 160 N. Ramani, Sri T.V. Gopalakrishnan, Smt. Ranganayaki Rajagopalan and others. Rajkumar Bharathi Prof. KANNIKESWARAN is a musician / composer / music educator based in Cincinnati 15. ^eiisfiluju iSlgujj# 176 Ohio. He has been an Adjunct Faculty at the Composition / Musicology / Theory Division Uma Maheswari of the College Conservatory of Music since1994. His presentation titled ‘The nOttu-svara- sahitya-s of Muttusvami Dlksitar’ won him awards at the 2007 conference of the Music 16. Book Reviews and New Arrivals 182 Academy, Chennai. Kannikeswaran is the first to record the entire set of NOttu-svara- sahitya-s with Indian voices and western orchestration. 17. Obituary 188 SIKKIL MALA CHANDRASEKHAR is a noted South Indian musician playing the flute. Mala Chandrasekhar is a disciple of her aunt and mother Sikkil Sisters - Kunjumani & Neela and combines the strongest aspects of both in her music. She imbibed through her mothers the flute artistry of their paternal uncle, Azhiyur Narayanaswamy Iyer and the rigorous rhythmic training given by their mrudangam playing father, Azhiyur Natesa Iyer. Other major influences on her are the expertise and repertoire of noted vocalist and teacher Radha Viswanathan and of Radha’s mother and guru, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi, whose family Mala joined by marriage. Dr. V. PREMALATHA Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. Study of Music manuscripts has been her main area of research. She was the recipient of the National Fellowship in Arts - Music (Junior) J ^ 6 7 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2011 • VOLUME 82 THE MUSIC ACADEMY • JOURNAL 2011 • VOLUME 82 aJ Ip d b awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi (2003-5). She has presented research papers at Vidwan BJV1. SUNDARAM, BMS as he is popularly known hails from a family of various seminars and conferences and some have been published in leading journals. She musicians. He has authored several books on music, which became popular and put him in is now handling a Major Research Project funded by the UGC, surveying and documenting the limelight. His first book ‘Palayazhi ’ deals with 3,600 raga scales with different ‘arOhana’ the Music manuscripts of the Oriental Research Institute, S V University, Tirapati. and ‘avardhana’. Mr. Sundaram’s works are many. He knows many languages. He worked as music producer and composer at the All India Radio, Pondicherry. A winner of many Dr. PREMEELA GURUMURTHY is a well known musician and musicologist who took awards, BMS was conferred with the Musicologist Award from The Music Academy. up Harikatha for her PhD. She is a performing artiste in both camatic vocal and Harikatha occasionally. Her illustrious gurus were Sri. T.K. Govinda Rao, Sri. B. Rajam Iyer and Dr. P. UMA MAHESWARI presently Principal, Tamilnadu Govt. Music College, Sri. T.M. Thyagarajan. She learnt the nuances of Harikatha from Smt. C. Banni Bai and Thiruvaiyaru, hails from a family of musicians. She represented the nation in the Festival Sri. Embar S.Vijayaraghavacharya. At present she is both the Professor and Head, of the of India at Russia. She has travelled extensively. Her doctoral thesis is ‘Musical aspects of Department of Indian Music and the Chairperson of the School of Fine and Performing Nalayira Divya Prabandam’. She has sung many albums. Arts, University of Madras. Dr. PRIYASHRI RAO a Classical Camatic Musician, Bharatanatyam exponent and a Research Scholar graduated in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra Foundation at Chennai and went on to complete her Ph.D from the Department of Indian Music, University of Madras. A Nattuvanar, Bharatanatyam dance choreographer and Music Composer, Priyashri is a recipient of the HRD Ministry scholarship for Bharatanatyam and the Junior Research Fellowship for pursuing doctoral studies. She is a versatile scholar and an articulate speaker. Vidwan RAJKUMAR BHARATHI is the great grandson of the Great Renaissance poet, Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi. His mother, Smt. Lalitha Bharathi, initiated Rajkumar into music at a tender age of 5, later on, the great musician Sri. Valliyur Gurumurthi, the stalwart Dr. Balamuralikrishna and the musical maestro T.V. Gopalakrishnan, groomed him. He is an Electronics and telecommunications engineer but turned to music as a full time career. He has been giving Classical Camatic music concerts all over India and abroad.