Kanada Raga group

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Kanada is a group of ragas in Hindustani classical music.

Kanada is derived from Karnata, which implies that the raga is originally from the Carnatic music (South India) tradition.[1]. According to Kaufmann[2] "Carnatic" refers to a name of a former province in the South between the Eastern ghats and the Coromandel coast, today included in the Madras Presidency.

Ragas in this group belong to different thaats, but particularly to the Asavari or Kafi thaat.
They share the following characteristics:

  1. komal ga and komal dha are vakra (zigzag) in descend and are used in phrases like gMR and dnP
  2. The basis of all Kanada scales is the scale of Sarang: S R M P (N or n). Even if the notes differ in one or two places, the performers avoid the notes g and d in fast passages, thus establishing the Sarang character.

The following ragas belong to this group:[3]

  1. Abhogi
  2. Adana kanada
  3. Asavari
  4. Bageshri kanada
  5. Darbari kanada
  6. Desakh (Devsakh, Deshakya)
  7. Husseini kanada
  8. Kafi kanada
  9. Kaunsi kanada (Kaushik kanada)
  10. Nayaki kanada
  11. Shahana kanada
  12. Sugharai kanada
  13. Suha kanada

[edit] References

  1. ^ Joep Bor 1999
  2. ^ Kaufmann 1968
  3. ^ Kaufmann 1968

[edit] Literature

  • Bor, Joep (1997?), The Raga Guide, Charlottesville,Virginia: Nimbus Records, <http://www.nimbus.ltd.uk> 
  • Kaufmann, Walter (1968), The ragas of North India, Calcutta, New Dheli, Bombay: Oxford & IBH Publishing Company 


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