NPTEL : NOC:Appreciating Carnatic Music (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Lakshmi Sreeram


Lecture 1 - The Body of Music

Lecture 2 - Music everywhere finding the classical

Lecture 3 - Classical Music Art Music

Lecture 4 - Music through Melody & Music through Harmony

Lecture 5 - Musical Material A Hard Look

Lecture 6 - Musical material Mo2

Lecture 7 - Carnatic Music as Raga Music

Lecture 8 - Understanding Raga - Part I

Lecture 9 - Understanding Raga - Part II (Raga and Swara)

Lecture 10 - Understanding Raga - Part III A Glimpse into Gamaka (Ornamentation) and Phraseology

Lecture 11 - Swara in the Sanskrit Textual Tradition

Lecture 12 - Sruti in Sanskrit Textual tradition

Lecture 13 - Tambura

Lecture 14 - Gamaka I

Lecture 15 - Gamaka II

Lecture 16 - Gamaka III

Lecture 17 - Gamakas IV

Lecture 18 - Raga and Phraseology

Lecture 19 - Raga - some basic expectations

Lecture 20 - A string of Ragas and a teaser

Lecture 21 - Raga in the textual tradition

Lecture 22 - Classification of Ragas I

Lecture 23 - Classification of Ragas II

Lecture 24 - Mela system of classifying raga-s

Lecture 25 - Generating the 72 mela-s

Lecture 26 - Application of 72 mela

Lecture 27 - Katapayadi Naming the 72 melas

Lecture 28 - Vivadi I

Lecture 29 - Vivadi II

Lecture 30 - Raga - Circles and Triangles

Lecture 31 - Laya: temporal discipline in music.

Lecture 32 - Tala an Introduction to the Concept

Lecture 33 - More on Tala and laya

Lecture 34 - Aspects of Tala - I

Lecture 35 - Aspects of Tala - II

Lecture 36 - Aspects of Tala - III

Lecture 37 - Aspects of IV

Lecture 38 - Composition in Carnatic Music

Lecture 39 - An Introduction

Lecture 40 - Varnam and laya intricacies

Lecture 41 - Kriti the premier compositional form in Carnatic music

Lecture 42 - Kriti some basic features

Lecture 43 - Precursors to the Kriti

Lecture 44 - Bhakti and Carnatic Music: Metaphor, World view and Yearning in Carnatic compositions.

Lecture 45 - Tanjavur and the Carnatic Trinity

Lecture 46 - Tyagaraja, the Vaggeyakara

Lecture 47 - Tyagaraja and His Many Moods -I

Lecture 48 - Tyagaraja and His Many Moods II

Lecture 49 - Muthuswami Dikshitar an overview

Lecture 50 - Muthuswami Dikshitar the Sanskirt Scholar and Advaitin

Lecture 51 - Muthuswami Dikshitar Some Other Aspects of his Work.

Lecture 52 - Syama Sastri

Lecture 53 - Tamil Composers before the trinity

Lecture 54 - Post trinity Composers

Lecture 55 - Swathi Tirunal - the Versatile Royal Composer

Lecture 56 - The Romance of Padam and Javali

Lecture 57 - Tillana

Lecture 58 - Improvisation in Carnatic Music - Alapana

Lecture 59 - ALAPANA : Style and Aesthetics

Lecture 60 - Neraval and Swaraprastara

Lecture 61 - TANAM

Lecture 62 - An expostion of Balagopala,a kriti in the rega Bhairavi with alapana, neraval and swaraprastara followed by tani Avartanam

Lecture 63 - Accompaniment in Carnatic Music - The Violin

Lecture 64 - Percussive Accompaniment - the Mridangam

Lecture 65 - Subsidiary Accompaniment - Interaction Among Accompanists

Lecture 66 - Percussion MRIDANGAM

Lecture 67 - Percussion KANJIRA

Lecture 68 - Percussion Ghatam

Lecture 69 - Percussion Morsing

Lecture 70 - Percussion Korvai and Thani Avartanam

Lecture 71 - The Typical carnatic Concert And Ragam Tanam Pallavi - RTP

Lecture 72 - Performing arts, drama

Lecture 73 - Dance and music

Lecture 74 - Raga-Concept and Presentation in Carnatic and Hindustani Music