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A collection of awesome carnatic music playlists, apps and learning resources.
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# Awesome Carnatic Music
A collection of awesome carnatic music: YouTube channels, playlists, apps and learning resources.
Inspired by the popular [Awesome List](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

PRs welcome! If you're not able to do a PR, reply to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/meerasndr/status/1243198245842472961) with your resource and link, I will take care of adding it here.

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

***

## Categories
1. [Books](#books)
2. [Blogs](#blogs)
3. [Listening Resources](#listening-resources)
4. [Online Learning Resources](#online-learning-resources)
5. [Composer Central](#composer-central)
6. [Community websites](#community-websites)
7. [Places](#places)
8. [Mobile apps](#mobile-apps)

***

### Books
- [Carnatic Summer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4809072-carnatic-summer)
- [Great Masters of Carnatic Music](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10701518-great-masters-of-carnatic-music-1930-1965)
- [Music Research Library](http://musicresearchlibrary.net/omeka/)
- [The Devadasi and the Saint: The life and times of Bangalore Nagarathnamma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10434498-the-devadasi-and-the-saint)
- [The Karnatic Music Book Centre](https://www.facebook.com/carnaticbooks/)
- [The Madras Quartet: Women in Karnatak Music](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52528379-the-madras-quartet)
- [Voice of the Veena](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815995-voice-of-the-veena-s-balachander)

#### Classics
- [Natya Shastra](https://sanskritdocuments.org/sanskrit/natyashastra/) by Bharata Muni
- Sangeetha Ratnakara by Sharngadeva (Saaranga Deva)
- [Preview](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sangitaratnakara_of_Sarngadeva/7gEUAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover)
- [With commentary](https://archive.org/details/SangitaRatnakara/page/n3/mode/2up)

### Blogs
- [Brain Drain](https://kpjayan.wordpress.com/)
- [Gamakam by Lalitharam](https://carnaticmusicreview.wordpress.com/) - Predominantly in Tamizh
- [Javali.blog](https://javali.blog/) - Javalis - Lyrics and More
- [Nadha Sudha Rasa](https://nadhasudharasa.blogspot.com/)
- [Sriram V](https://sriramv.wordpress.com/category/carnatic-music/)
- [Sruti Online Magazine](https://srutimag.blogspot.com/)
- [Sunson - Just Thinking Out Loud](https://sunson.wordpress.com/)
- [Vishnu Vasudev](https://medium.com/@vishnuvasudev_63314)

### Listening Resources

- ##### YouTube Channels / Playlists
- [Aditya Music Carnatic](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGxgZZw4mZ4zjgU69BkLlw)
- [Amutham Music](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibYf4owyfqpIUtbwb7B_fw)
- [Arkay Ramakrishnan](https://www.youtube.com/user/arkay1955)
- [Bharatiya Samagana Sabha](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVixXkzBzjvKCHLd8U8rW_w)
- [Carnatic Center](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvssQ59vJ0fxHcTZA100peQ)
- [Carnatic World](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC94j0n0mlgzG7_M8GF-6E8A)
- [Darbar Festival](https://www.youtube.com/user/darbarfestival)
- [First Edition Arts](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7OXY2c5apsxw4J-Kx4p_NQ)
- [Gopalakrishnan TV](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCehwxQ1ZGiAgui_jvP4xaHA)
- [Guruvayurappa Dhasan](https://www.youtube.com/user/9443175671/videos)
- [HCL Maestros in Studio - Carnatic Classical](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLedbciaVCDDKbsWq0KIJiNHe8pQULVATY)
- [INRECO Carnatic Songs](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9VkxD-HuD3CACdnCG82zmw)
- [Madrasana](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7NdODNgLYVKKs6a6VCKHQQ)
- [Musique4ever](https://www.youtube.com/user/Musique4ever/videos)
- [Nadham Carnatic Classical](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSbGrghya9nxcxez3QSyOg)
- [Narayan Kumar](https://www.youtube.com/user/nkrama)
- [Parivadini Music](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI_ZZUah1img9mg8gNdaCjQ)
- [Raju Asokan](https://www.youtube.com/user/vintageaudio54)
- [Ranganathan Srinivasan](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcjOt9UwIw-XReT2fQREnUygm02cZuim9)
- [Sangeetha Rasika](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1GKiyaJP1KtrWVoUj9ti5A)
- [Shaale Live](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17VuBOE6dhZCs-ivrgGkLg)
- [Sir Roderick Glossop](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaqo36k2FIXi09HFCnFImnw)
- [Shankar Rajasekharan](https://www.youtube.com/user/tmi654321/featured)
- [Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1B8-rVEHWQjTwvtRk9Rqlw)
- [Swamimalai Saravanan](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqhxgEdQvHXcLng8_MBqmg) - Nagaswaram intensive
- [Tandora Networks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGh3q3IDZF00QqLTxrbYs1A)

- #### Websites
- [Sangeethapriya](http://www.sangeethapriya.org)
- [A Home called "Parvathi"](https://chowdaiahandparvati.blogspot.com/)
- [Arangam Online - Carnatic Radio](http://www.arangamonline.com/)

### Online Learning Resources

- ##### Lyrics / Notations
- [Guru Guha Vaibhavam](https://guru-guha.blogspot.com/2009/04/dikshitar-kritis-alphabetical-list.html) - Lyrics & Meanings for Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions
- [Karnatik](https://karnatik.com/ragas.shtml)
- [Patantara](https://patantara.com/notations/) - High Quality Carnatic Music notation
- [Sadasiva Brahmendra Vaibhavam](https://sadasivabrahmendra.blogspot.com/) - Lyrics & Meanings for Sadhashiva Brahmendra's compositions
- [Shivkumar Kalyanaraman](http://www.shivkumar.org/music/index.html)
- [Syama Krishna Vaibhavam](https://syamakrishnavaibhavam.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabetica-list-of-kritis.html) - Lyrics & Meanings for Muthuswami Dikshitar's compositions
- [Thyagaraja Vaibhavam](https://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.com/2009/03/tyagaraja-kritis-alphabetical-list.html) - Lyrics & Meanings for Thyagaraja's compositions
- [Translations of Carnatic Songs](https://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/)

- ##### Miscellaneous
- [Raga Surabhi](http://www.ragasurabhi.com/index.html)

### Composer Central
- Muthuswami Dikshitar
- [Guruguha](http://guruguha.org/)
- [Sangeethapriya Tribute Page](http://www.sangeethapriya.org/tributes/dikshithar/index.html)
- [Sri Narayana Tirtha](http://www.narayanatirtha.org/)

### Community Websites
- [Rasikas](http://www.rasikas.org/forums/)

### Places
- [Madras Music Academy](https://musicacademymadras.in/)
- [Thyagaraja's Brindavana](http://thiruvaiyaruthyagarajaaradhana.org/)

### Apps
- [Kuyil Carnatic Apps](https://kuyil.org/)
- [Layam Carnatic Metronome](http://mysorevadiraj.com/layam-carnatic-metronome-app/)
- [Riyaz App](https://riyazapp.com/)
- [Tala Keeper](http://talakeeper.org/) - A programmable visual interface
- [Tanpura Droid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swarsystems.is)
- [Upbeat Labs](http://www.upbeatlabs.com/)
- [Ragaflow](https://github.com/aiexplorations/RagaExperiments/blob/master/Ragaflow.ipynb)