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Giridhar Dodderi was born in an illustrious family that traces its ancestry back over 5 centuries in Shimoga District in Karnataka. His grandfather was the much felicitated Dr. DV Rao, a noted litterateur and photographer who also served as the President of The Federation of Indian Photography. Young Giridhar spent his childhood in the natural scenic surroundings of Sagar, Shimoga. Although there was nobody at home with a musical background, he developed an interest in music and began learning Bulbul Sitar and harmonium from Vasudha Sharma at the age of 12. After a couple of years, he took fancy to flute and started playing film songs on his own. More » |
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A raga , literally "colour, hue" but also "beauty, melody"; also spelled raag, rag, ragam is one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music.
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of five or more musical notes upon which a melody is made. In the Indian musical tradition, rāgas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a rāga. Non-classical music such as popular Indian film songs and ghazals sometimes use rāgas in their compositions.
The term raga was defined by Joep Bor of the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music as "tonal framework for composition and improvisation." Nazir Jairazbhoy, chairman of UCLA's department of ethnomusicology, characterized ragas as separated by scale, line of ascent and descent, transilience, emphasized notes |
Basohli painting of Ragaputra Velavala, son of the raga Bhairava. |
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| Vasant Ragini, Ragamala, Rajput, Kota, Rajasthan. 1770. Vasant is the raga of spring. The painting depicts Hindu god Krishna dancing with maidens. |
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and register, and intonation and ornaments. The Sanskrit noun rāga is derived from the verbal root rañj "to colour, to dye". It is used in the literal sense of "the act of dyeing", and also "colour, hue, tint", especially "red colour" in the Sanskrit epics. A figurative sense "passion, love, desire, delight" is also found in the Mahabharata. The specialized sense of "loveliness, beauty", especially of voice or song, emerges in Classical Sanskrit, used by Kalidasa and in the Pancatantra. The term first occurs in a technical context in the Brihaddeshi (dated ca. 5th to 8th century), where it is described as "a combination of tones which, with beautiful illuminating graces, pleases the people in general".
Rāginī is a term for the "feminine" counterpart or "wife" to a rāga. The rāga-rāgini scheme from about the 14th century aligned 6 'male' rāgas with 6 'wives'.
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Magician
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Giridhar is also adept in performing magic. His grand uncle, who himself was an accomplished magician, taught him basic coin tricks. He later concentrated on becoming proficient in card tricks, learning them by watching DVDs. Giridhar has now been performing magic for over 24 years. More » |
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