Sri Tyagaraja


Sri Tyagaraja is a rāgam in Carnatic music created by music composer who has created many ragas, Which is named after saint Tyagaraja of Tiruvaiyaru. It is the Janya raga of 59th Melakarta rāgam Dharmavati in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic classical music. Mahesh Mahadev introduced this raga to Indian classical music by composing Carnatic kritis & viruttams.
Sri Tyagaraja raga is an asymmetrical and does not contain dhaivatham in both ascending and descending of the scale, The gamakas of this raga emotes bhakti and karuna rasa.
Mahesh Mahadev has also introduced this new rāgam to Hindustani music.

Structure and Lakshana

Sri Tyagaraja is an asymmetric rāgam that does not contain rishabham or dhaivatam in the ascending scale and does not contain dhaivatam in the descending scale. It is an audava-shadava rāgam.
Its structure is as follows.
  • [Arohana|]:
  • [Avarohana|]:
The notes used in this scale are shadjam, sadharana gandharam, prati madhyamam, panchamam and kakali nishadham in ascending scale and chatushruti rishabham added in descending scale. It is a ''audava - shadava rāgam ''

Compositions

The compositions in this rāgam
CompositionLanguageTalamComposerLyricsSinger / InstrumentalistAudio LabelNotesRef.
Sri Ramachandram BhajamiSanskritAdiMahesh MahadevMahesh MahadevPriyadarshiniPM AudiosKriti in praise of Lord Rama with a raga mudra in the composition
Sri Tyagaraja Raga on StringsInstrumentalAdiMahesh Mahadev-Jyostna SrikantPM Audios
Pahimam Sri MatangiSanskritAdiMahesh MahadevMahesh MahadevPriyadarshiniMugus Records