Kanakangi Ragam
Kanakangi means the Golden Bodied One. Kanakangi raga is the first raga of the 72 Melakarta Raga System and 1st of the Indu Chakra of the Carnatic Music. It is also called Kanakambari raga in the Muthuswami Dikshithar School of Music.
Kanakangi's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields Kamavardani. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the ragam.
Kanakambari is the 1st Melakarta in the original list compiled by Venkatamakhin. The notes used in the scale are the same, but the ascending scale is different. It is an audava-sampurna raga (5 notes in ascending scale, while full 7 are used in descending scale).
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It is 1st ragam in the 1st chakra Indu. The mnemonic name is Indu-Pa. The mnemonic phrase is sa ra ga ma pa dha na. Its arohana-avarohana structure (ascending and descending scale) has all shuddha swaras, as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
Arohana: S R1 G1 M1 P D1 N1
Avarohana: S N1 D1 P M1 G1 R1
(the notes are shuddha rishabham, shuddha gandharam, shuddha madhyamam, shuddha dhaivatham, shuddha nishadham)
It is a sampurna ragam – a ragam that has all seven swaras (notes). It is the shuddha madhyamam equivalent of Salagam, which is the 37th melakarta.
Kanakangi has a few janya ragams associated with it, of which Karnataka shuddha saveri and Lavangi (a recent addition to Carnatic music by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna) are a little popular.
Janya Ragam Kanakangi
S R1 G1 M1 P D1 N1 S
S N1 D1 P M1 G1 R1 S
1) Kanakambari
S R1 M1 P D1 S
S N1 D1 P M1 G1 R1 S
2) Kanakatodi
S R1 G1 M1 P D1 S
S N1 D1 P M1 R1 S
3) Karnataka Shuddha Saveri
S R1 M1 P D1 S
S D1 P M1 R1 S
4) Latantapriya
S R1 G1 M1 P D1 S
S D1 P M1 R1 S
5) Lavangi
S R1 M1 D1 S
S D1 M1 R1 S
6) Megha
S R1 M1 P D1 N1 D1 P S
S N1 D1 P M1 R1 S
7) Rishabhavilasa
S R1 M1 P D1 S
S D1 P M1 R1 M1 R1 S
8) Sarvashree
S M1 P S
S P M1 S
9) Suddha Mukhari
S R1 M1 P D1 S
S N1 D1 P M1 G1 R1 S
10) Tatillatika
S R1 M1 P D1 S
S D1 P M1 R1 S
Tamil Film Songs
1) Moham ennum - Sindhu Bhairavi-Ilaiyaraaja K. J. Yesudas
Few compositions have been composed in this austere ragam of which some are as listed:
1) Kanakambari karunyamrtalahari in ragam KanakAmbari by Muthuswamy Dikshitar
2) Sri Gananatham Bhajamyaham by Thyagaraja
3) Kanakangaka by Koteeswara Iyer - having composed a kriti in every melakarta raga in his magnum opus Kanda Ganamutham
4) Sreesa Putraya is a composition by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, is part of a series of compositions he created in every melakartha raga.
Kanakangi's notes when shifted using Graha bhedam, yields Kamavardani. Graha bhedam is the step taken in keeping the relative note frequencies same, while shifting the shadjam to the next note in the ragam.