Wednesday 10 January 2018


උතුරු ඉංදීය රාගධාරි සංගීතයට එකතුවන අලුත් රාගයක් ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් කරනු ලැබේ.( රාග'ෂඩ්ජ වර්ජ')

Thata      ;Khamaj
Aroha     ;Bb D,EFGAB (komal Ni suddha Ri,suddha Ga suddha Ma Pa suddha Da suddha Ni)
Avaroha  ;D Bb A F G,F E D,D Bb (suddha Ri komal Ni suddha Da suddha Ma Pa,suddha Ma
                suddha Ga suddha Ri,suddha Ri komal Ni )
Catch notes; Bb,EFGABb A F,G,ABA,GAB,GABb,AG,A,F,GF,A,GF,FED,D Bb
Jathi        ;Shadav-Shadav
Vadi/Samvadi;E/B (suddha Ga/suddha Ni )
Time of the performance;2nd part of the night
Sapthak   ;Mandra/Madya/Thaar
Tuning    ;Pa (G)
Raga
discription;This Raga or scale SHADJA VARJA introduced by biomusicologist; Amarasiri priyankara.The renderings are in this Raga rather difficult.To beautify this Raga can be used ''C and Eb''(Sa and komal Ga).
It is shown below the complete Raga using two notes (Sa and komal Ga)
Bb,DFGA,FED,GFE,AGF,Bb A G,Bb A G F E,FEGAB,DFGA,F D Bb G A B,G A Bb, Eb D Bb G,E F G E, B, Bb A G F E, E F G A, A C Bb A F E. And the other important thing is that these two notes used only in descending,but not directly still as possible as less times.
N/B;it is not wrong to use north India Ragadhari music to use scales knowledge of western music.
                           
                                     Raga Shadja Varja
Thaata    ;Khamaj
Aroha     ;Bb D,EFGAB (B flat,