SIA brings you this week raga Bhairavi. If there is one raga even the uninitiated has heard of, it is Bhairavi!

We thought we will bring you Bhairavi in the memorable Jagjit Singh concert presented in Mumbai in 2001 in celebration of his 60th birthday.

Jagjit Singh is accompanied on tabla by Abinav Upadhayay, Surendra Sharma on Santoor, Deepak Pandit on Violin, Arshad Ahmed on guitar, Akhlaq Hussain Warsi on harmonium, and Santosh Gaud on dholak. We thank Abhinav Upadhyaya for reminiscing the concert.

SIA thanks Harini Kapoor, student of Pandit Madhup Mudgal, for concise description of the raga. The textbook Bhairavi ascends and descends with all seven notes, keeping re, ga, dha, and ni komal, and ma shudh, both ways. In practice, all twelve notes of the octave are used depending on the composition and the elaboration.
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Click on the links below to enjoy the song!

Musically yours,
Hari Dayal, Ph.D., Executive Director, SIA
Founder and Former CEO, IAA Houston
​Hari Dayal | [email protected] | 832.231.3086

​Hari Dayal | [email protected] | 832.231.3086

We bring you this week two popular Bollywood numbers: Hoton Se Chhoo Lo Tum
(Singer and Composer Jagjit Singh, film Prem Geet) and Jab Deep Jale Aanaa
(Singers Yasudas and Hemlata, Composer Ravindra Jain, film Chitchor).

Both songs are composed in raga Yaman Kalyan, a sampurna (complete) raga

    We bring you this week two popular Bollywood numbers by famous composer
duo Shankar-Jaikishan - Jaane Kahan Gaye Woh Din (Mera Naam Joker) and O
Mere Sanam, O Mere Sanam (Sangam).

Both songs are composed in raga Shivranjani, a Shankar-Jaikishan favorite.

You may wonder why the two songs composed in the same raga sound so
different. 

​Well, that is because a raga is NOT a tune- it is simply a structure of
ascending and descending notes (aarohi and avrohi). Within that structure, the
composer is at liberty to improvise and devise different tunes.

Click the links below to enjoy the songs!

Hari Dayal | [email protected] | 832.231.3086