Awesome Carnatic Music

A collection of awesome carnatic music: YouTube channels, playlists, apps and learning resources. Inspired by the popular Awesome List

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Disclaimer: At the moment, this is aimed to be a generic resource list. No specific artists or songs are linked under the listening section.

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Categories

1. Books
2. Blogs
3. Listening Resources
4. Online Learning Resources
5. Composer Central
6. Community websites
7. Places
8. Mobile apps

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Books

• Carnatic Summer

• Great Masters of Carnatic Music

• Music Research Library

• The Devadasi and the Saint: The life and times of Bangalore Nagarathnamma

• The Karnatic Music Book Centre

• The Madras Quartet: Women in Karnatak Music

• Voice of the Veena

  Classics

  • Natya Shastra by Bharata Muni
  • Sangeetha Ratnakara by Sharngadeva (Saaranga Deva)
    • Preview
    • With commentary

Blogs

• Brain Drain
• Gamakam by Lalitharam - Predominantly in Tamizh
• Javali.blog - Javalis - Lyrics and More
• Nadha Sudha Rasa
• Sriram V
• Sruti Online Magazine
• Sunson - Just Thinking Out Loud
• Vishnu Vasudev

Listening Resources

• YouTube Channels / Playlists

  • Aditya Music Carnatic
  • Amutham Music
  • Arkay Ramakrishnan
  • Bharatiya Samagana Sabha
  • Carnatic Center
  • Carnatic World
  • Darbar Festival
  • First Edition Arts
  • Gopalakrishnan TV
  • Guruvayurappa Dhasan
  • HCL Maestros in Studio - Carnatic Classical
  • INRECO Carnatic Songs
  • Madrasana
  • Musique4ever
  • Nadham Carnatic Classical
  • Narayan Kumar
  • Parivadini Music
  • Raju Asokan
  • Ranganathan Srinivasan
  • Sangeetha Rasika
  • Shaale Live
  • Sir Roderick Glossop
  • Shankar Rajasekharan
  • Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha
  • Swamimalai Saravanan - Nagaswaram intensive
  • Tandora Networks

• Websites

  • Sangeethapriya
  • A Home called "Parvathi"
  • Arangam Online - Carnatic Radio

Online Learning Resources

• Lyrics / Notations

  • Guru Guha Vaibhavam - Lyrics & Meanings for Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions
  • Karnatik
  • Patantara - High Quality Carnatic Music notation
  • Sadasiva Brahmendra Vaibhavam - Lyrics & Meanings for Sadhashiva Brahmendra's compositions
  • Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
  • Syama Krishna Vaibhavam - Lyrics & Meanings for Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions
  • Thyagaraja Vaibhavam - Lyrics & Meanings for Thyagaraja's compositions
  • Translations of Carnatic Songs

• Miscellaneous

  • Raga Surabhi

Composer Central

• Muthuswami Dikshitar
  • Guruguha
  • Sangeethapriya Tribute Page
• Sri Narayana Tirtha

Community Websites

• Rasikas

Places

• Madras Music Academy
• Thyagaraja's Brindavana

Apps

• Kuyil Carnatic Apps
• Layam Carnatic Metronome
• Riyaz App
• Tala Keeper - A programmable visual interface
• Tanpura Droid
• Upbeat Labs
• Ragaflow