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Hamsanadam  (pronounced hamsanādam) is a  rāgam  in  Carnatic music  (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is a pentatonic scale ( audava  rāgam, which means "of 5"), as it is sung in current days. [1]  It is a derived scale ( janya  rāgam), as it does not have all the seven  swaras  (musical notes), from the 60th  Melakarta  rāgam  Neetimati . [1] Contents    [ hide ]  1   Structure and Lakshana 2   Other structures 3   Popular compositions 4   References Structure and Lakshana [ edit ] Hamsanadam  scale with  shadjam  at C Hamsanadam , as it is sung now-a-days, is a symmetric scale that does not contain  gandharam  and  dhaivatam . It is called an  audava  rāgam, [1]  in Carnatic music classification (as it has 5 notes in both ascending and descending scales). Its  ārohaṇa-avarohaṇa  structure is as follows (see  swaras  in Carnatic music  for details on below notation and terms): ārohaṇa  : S R2 M2 P N3 S avarohaṇa  : S N3 P