Raga CDs of the Months (02/08): Malkauns – King of Ragas

Raga mAlkauns (or Malkosh) is in North Indian Classical music (Hindustani) very popular with the audience and musicians. In the South of India Malkauns is well known as Ragam hindOLam (Carnatic Music). It is a 5 tone Raga with a 300 to 400 years old history and multivarious development..

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5th February 2008 – 09:00 p.m. METZ (03:00 pm EST) @ Tide 96.0 FM (DE)
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Malkauns is played to the late evening hour as midnight raga. The tendency of this majestic Raga is meditative and introverted, it’s modality is unique.

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ascending and descending scales of Raga mAlkauns (Bhairavi Thaat):

audav-audav | ‘n S g m d n S’ – S’ n d n d m g m g S ‘n S

Ragam hindOLam (Melakartha system No. 20: naTabhairavi): S G2 M1 D1 N2 S – S N2 D1 M1 G2 S
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Indian music maestros award to this Raga supernatural forces. By Malkauns even bad spirit can be driven out. The Indian Author V. Murthy who is living in Bangalore calls mAlkauns “king of the Ragas“, the title of our 1st April show @ Radio FRO (Upper Austria).