Episode 21: Carnatic Music Terms Defined -- Shruti Bhedam or Graha Bhedam

28/11/2008 18 min
Episode 21: Carnatic Music Terms Defined -- Shruti Bhedam or Graha Bhedam

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Episode Synopsis

Continuing on the topic of "Shruti", in this episode we present the concept of Shruti Bhedam. Shruti Bhedam or Graha Bhedam is a form of improvisation in Carnatic Music where artistes transpose the raaga they are rendering to a new raaga by using a perception of a shift of their fundamental note or shadjam. Vidya illustrates this concept using the raaga Mohanam to bring out the raaga Madhyamavathy by a tonic shift.