Please Listen from IR Album "How To Name It?" two numbers of pieces titled,
“I Met Bach….” &
“…. And We Had Talk…”.
Here IR has given a new look to the Bach’s Prelude in A-Major as well as Bourre in E-Minor.
(This prelude of Bach is available in the Ilaiyaragam file section also ! Please Click here and download the midi file part3emj.mid and the tab file Bourree In Em-00.tef In case you want tab software, download the exe file tabled32.exe ) .
In the prelude, what Bach has done 300 years ago is writing a composition for Violin piece in A-Major scale and is continuously modulating into various major and minor scales in a sequence….!
During such transition from one scale to another, if you look at Carnatic angle…., you can perceive a different rainbow of Carnatic Raagams !
So the brilliant IR has identified those transition zones and in order to highlight them he added one more Carnatic line to the existing Bach’s composition and Plays the both Western Bach (300 years ago) with Carnatic IR in synchronized fashion…!
IR's imagination is "Had Bach met Thiagaraja and both understand each others music and joined hand to create a New World of Music ...?!!"
That's the theme of HTNI !
If you hear the Bach’s composition and then IR’s HTNI’s piece you will be so mesmerized….who is playing for whom…?
Is Bach is doing the background music for IR or IR is doing the background for Bach…?
Its with so much Perfect Balance between WCM and Carnatic…!
And this is what to be called as fusion…!
Which made this possible for IR…?
Imagine if he remained himself constrained to any one field, the net result is he would have remained a good disciplined fellow for that particualr field but we all would have been starved of certain GEMs !
His imagination and enthusiasm of bringing the best out of two by adding the advantages & flexibilities of both the field only made this possible!
He has been doing that right from Annakili…..!
With "Potruvar Potralum...Thootruvar Thootralum...Pogattum Kannanukke...!" type of resolutary mind !
Imagine, one person is offering you the plate consist of gold ornaments….! Another person is offering the plate consists of full of diamonds…!
Imagine both says you take only theirs and not others !
And I feel the wiser approach is to get both the gold and diamond and make a Diamond studded Gold ornament!
The value and look and elegance….. everything is multiplied, rather than when they are seen as an individual !
But imagine if both the persons who offered the individual gold or diamond, now started criticizing that he spoilt the gold with diamond and vice versa….!
So to conclude the WCM Vs Carnatic perceptions, let me summarise like this….!·
-Carnatic gives the flexibility of Patterns but pose the constraints of their usage and shifting from one to another….!
- WCM has the constraint of Patterns but has flexibilities of usage or shifting from one to another…!
And the wiser sense tell that ……AVAIL ALL THE FLEXIBILITIES OF BOTH……rather than worrying about their constraints !
IR not only remained wiser……HE DISCOVERED…HE REGULARISED SUCH FUSION….HE INVENTED THE NEW SET OF UNWRITTEN RULES FOR SUCH FUSION IN DOING SO…..!
To recognize those things, one will need a century ! And to learn and follow that ……centuries and centuries are needed…!
Like the genius mathematician Ramanujam, he has written thousands of such Musical Theorems in short steps in each of his musical compositions…!
To solve and realize and prove and adopt them is for the next generation job….!
To perceive that we have to educate ourselves…. So that even if it is not possible for us to do, we can guide our next generation towards that !
And can see them attaining that with enjoyment and self-satisfaction !
Our discussion on WCM Vs Carnatic will continue for one last time which will lead us to the new zone of WCM learning…
That is introduction to Chords & Harmony…..!
“I Met Bach….” &
“…. And We Had Talk…”.
Here IR has given a new look to the Bach’s Prelude in A-Major as well as Bourre in E-Minor.
(This prelude of Bach is available in the Ilaiyaragam file section also ! Please Click here and download the midi file part3emj.mid and the tab file Bourree In Em-00.tef In case you want tab software, download the exe file tabled32.exe ) .
In the prelude, what Bach has done 300 years ago is writing a composition for Violin piece in A-Major scale and is continuously modulating into various major and minor scales in a sequence….!
During such transition from one scale to another, if you look at Carnatic angle…., you can perceive a different rainbow of Carnatic Raagams !
So the brilliant IR has identified those transition zones and in order to highlight them he added one more Carnatic line to the existing Bach’s composition and Plays the both Western Bach (300 years ago) with Carnatic IR in synchronized fashion…!
IR's imagination is "Had Bach met Thiagaraja and both understand each others music and joined hand to create a New World of Music ...?!!"
That's the theme of HTNI !
If you hear the Bach’s composition and then IR’s HTNI’s piece you will be so mesmerized….who is playing for whom…?
Is Bach is doing the background music for IR or IR is doing the background for Bach…?
Its with so much Perfect Balance between WCM and Carnatic…!
And this is what to be called as fusion…!
Which made this possible for IR…?
Imagine if he remained himself constrained to any one field, the net result is he would have remained a good disciplined fellow for that particualr field but we all would have been starved of certain GEMs !
His imagination and enthusiasm of bringing the best out of two by adding the advantages & flexibilities of both the field only made this possible!
He has been doing that right from Annakili…..!
With "Potruvar Potralum...Thootruvar Thootralum...Pogattum Kannanukke...!" type of resolutary mind !
Imagine, one person is offering you the plate consist of gold ornaments….! Another person is offering the plate consists of full of diamonds…!
Imagine both says you take only theirs and not others !
And I feel the wiser approach is to get both the gold and diamond and make a Diamond studded Gold ornament!
The value and look and elegance….. everything is multiplied, rather than when they are seen as an individual !
But imagine if both the persons who offered the individual gold or diamond, now started criticizing that he spoilt the gold with diamond and vice versa….!
So to conclude the WCM Vs Carnatic perceptions, let me summarise like this….!·
-Carnatic gives the flexibility of Patterns but pose the constraints of their usage and shifting from one to another….!
- WCM has the constraint of Patterns but has flexibilities of usage or shifting from one to another…!
And the wiser sense tell that ……AVAIL ALL THE FLEXIBILITIES OF BOTH……rather than worrying about their constraints !
IR not only remained wiser……HE DISCOVERED…HE REGULARISED SUCH FUSION….HE INVENTED THE NEW SET OF UNWRITTEN RULES FOR SUCH FUSION IN DOING SO…..!
To recognize those things, one will need a century ! And to learn and follow that ……centuries and centuries are needed…!
Like the genius mathematician Ramanujam, he has written thousands of such Musical Theorems in short steps in each of his musical compositions…!
To solve and realize and prove and adopt them is for the next generation job….!
To perceive that we have to educate ourselves…. So that even if it is not possible for us to do, we can guide our next generation towards that !
And can see them attaining that with enjoyment and self-satisfaction !
Our discussion on WCM Vs Carnatic will continue for one last time which will lead us to the new zone of WCM learning…
That is introduction to Chords & Harmony…..!
Hi CSR,
ReplyDeleteI regularly follow your blog. Thanks a lot for sharing the wealth of information you have. It is really great how IR has fused carnatic with existing western classical pieces of Bach. Meanwhile I got hold of a midi version of the Bourree in Em. Hope this would be useful to readers compared to the tef version.
http://www.classtab.org/jsb0996b.mid
Regards,
Ramesh