Nottuswaram - Vandhe Meenakshi

Influenced by western classical music, great musicians like Muthuswami Dikshithar and Muthayya Bhagavathar have composed a lot of songs in the western style where the swaras are sung as plane notes with no gamakams. They could be called 'Carnatic Volts' as Prince Rama Varma explains here. The second part has the famous 'English Note'.
Had used maestro Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan's 'Note' for an earlier post.
Here is Madurai Mani Iyer's who actually popularized the English Note.

Vandhe Meenakshi, set in Shankarabaranam is a very simple 'nottuswaram' song composed by Muthuswami Dikshithar. I was excited to learn and create a video for this as the thaalam is really easy - no wonder it is used as an exercise for beginners! I have given the swarams and the lyrics ( some words have been split to match the beat).
This is a dedication to a little friend who introduced me to this song and was looking for the swaram!
Hope you like it ...

Here is a certified version of the same (sung beautifully by a 13 year old) that I learnt from...