14 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Carnatic Music"

This is a short theka played on the morsing, which is a jaw harp used as a percussion accompaniment in carnatic music.

A short jati (phrase) played on the mridangam, a percussion instrument used in carnatic music of india. It is a part of a long mridangam solo. The mridangam is tuned to c#.

This sound is a synthesized sound where the loudness and the timbre (weights) of the harmonics are derived from a short excerpt of carnatic music. The original sound from where these parameters are derived will be soon linked here in the description.

This excerpt demonstrates a kind of gamaka (sphuritam) in carnatic music. Description-sphuritam: starting on a svara higher than its own position and quickly descending to its position which is repeated. This particular instance is sphuritam gamaka on m svara in raaga arabhi. Sung by: vignesh ishwar.

This is a synthesized melodic contour of a short excerpt of carnatic music. This sound is basically used for a demonstration of the importance of loudness and timbre in melody. The original excerpt from where the pitch was extracted and the monotonized version of this sound will be soon linked here in the description.

This is a very short excerpt of carnatic music. This sound is basically used for a demonstration of the importance of loudness and timbre in melody. A synthesized melody sound and a monotonized version of that sound will be soon linked here in the description.

A short theka in khanda nade (pentuple meter) on the mridangam.

An oral rendition (konnakol) of mridangam solkattu. Comprises of a short theka in khanda nade (pentuple meter).

A short theka, jathi and muktaayam in tishra nade (triple meter), adi taala (8 beats in a cycle) on a mridangam. (amateur playing).

Todi, one of ten thaat. Created by Hyacinth (talk) 11:59, 10 March 2011 (UTC) using Sibelius 5. GFDL-self

A short on the fly rhythmic improvisation on ghatam and morsing. It starts out on a duple meter and slowly moves to a triple meter.

A short theka followed by a muktaayam on morsing in adi taala, a rhythmic cycle of 8 beats with four notes/strokes in each beat. (amateur playing).

Shree Neelotpala Naayike, in the raga Reethigowlai. A composition by Muthuswamy Dikshitar. The rendition was part of the Smt Kalpakam Swaminathan memorial concert at Naada Inbam, Chennai.

A short example of a short theka in adi taala (a cycle of 8 beats) on mridangam and konnakol (oral percussion). The mridangam strokes are played along with the corresponding solkattu (onomatopoeic syllables of the mridangam strokes) said aloud.