Raga Bhoopali & Khamas - Sitar Instrumental Music - B.Sivaramakrishna Rao 00:03 – Raga – Bhoopali & Khamas B.Sivaramakrishna Rao: B. Sivaramakrishna Rao is a musical genius to reckon with in Chennai. A child prodigy with tuneful genes, he has built on natural musical endowments to evolve into a multifariously talented performer and composer. A master of the queen of musical instruments, the Sitar, he plays Thyagaraja kritis with as much panache as a Hindustani Gat. This enables him to accompany an Padma Vibhushan Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna with the same verve and ease as he would entrance the audience of Hindustani Music The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument flourished under the Mughals, and it is named after a Persian instrument called the setar (meaning three strings). The sitar flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th-century India. It derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck and a gourd-shaped resonance chamber. In appearance, the sitar is similar to the tanpura, except that it has frets. Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, a short-lived trend arose for the use of the sitar in Western popular music, with the instrument appearing on tracks by bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones and others. Bhoopali, also known as Bhoop, Bhopali or Bhupali, is a Hindustani classical raga. It is a pentatonic scale (uses 5 notes in ascending and descending scale). Most of the songs in this raga are based on Bhakti rasa. Since it uses 5 notes, belongs to the "Audav jaati" of ragas. The same raga in Carnatic music is known as Mohanam. Raga Bhoopali, Raga Yaman and Raga Bhairav tend to be the three basic ragas of Hindustani music, learnt first by its students. Khamas or Kamās/ Khamās /Khamāch/ Khamāj (கமாச்) is a rāgam in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is a janya rāgam (derived scale) from the 28th melakarta scale Harikambhoji. It is a janya scale, as it does not have all the seven swaras(musical notes) in the ascending scale. It is a scale that evokes Shringara rasa. It is suitable for javali type compositions Subscribe to our Indian Classical Music Channel: https://goo.gl/D2hEjg #sitar #classical #carnaticclassicalmusic #bsivaramakrishnarao #raga #bhoopali #indianclassicalinstrumentalmusic