Raaga : Hamsanadam
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
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