What is Arohanam and Avarohanam in music?
Arohanam is the sequence of swaras used in a raga in the ascending passages i.e. as the pitch goes up. Avarohanam is the sequence of swaras to be used in descent. The arohanam and avarohanam (or the scale) of a raga provide only a skeletal outline upon which the rest of the raga is formed.
Are building blocks of ragas?
Every raga has a swara (a note or named pitch) called shadja, or adhara sadja, whose pitch may be chosen arbitrarily by the performer. Every raga has a vadi and a samvadi. The vadi is the most prominent swara, which means that an improvising musician emphasizes or pays more attention to the vadi than to other notes.
What is the importance of Arohanam and avarohanam in Carnatic music?
Arohanam and Avarohanam is just a skeleton of a ragam. They help in understanding or even creating a swara varusai, like you learn Swaraali, Thattu varusai in the initial stages of learning carnatic music. Also, Arohanam and avarohanam is used to remember the ragam and identify its raga janyam.
What is the arohanam and Avarohanam of Anandha Bhairavi?
The arohanam is S G2 R2 G2 M1 P D2 P S and the avarohanam is S N2 D2 P M1 G2 R2 S. This raga follows Natabhairavi janyam ie., Anandha Bhairavi is derived from the parent ragam – Natabhairavi. But Anandha Bhairavi uses D2 instead of D1 as in the parent ragam.
What is the difference between Yaman raga and Kalyani raga?
Hindustani Raga Yaman is equivalent to Kalyani Ragam of Carnatic system. But a basic difference is movement. In Yaman, Ni Re Ga, and (T)Ma Dha Ni chalan is mandatory; contrarily in Kalyani- Sa Ri Ga (P) Ma Pa Dha Ni movement is applied. Almost every raga starts from Sadja in Carnatic system which is not accepted in other styles.
Are all sancharams formed from arohonam and avorohanam?
No sancharams are not formed from arohonam and avorohanam. Interestingly the reverse is true. Old musicologists formulaed the arohonam and avorohanam from this sancharams. This holds good for old ragams. Newer scale ragams are formulated by first choosing the arohonam and avorohanam and then building the rakthi out of it.