Mudra (music)

Mudra is the unique signature of a Carnatic music composer, which is woven into some or all of their respective compositions. Not all composers have mudras, and they do not necessarily relate to the composer's name.

• Tallapaka Annamayya - Venkata
• Purandara Dasa - Purandara Vitthala
• Kanaka Dasa - Kaginele Adi Keshava
• Tyagaraja - Tyagaraja
• Syama Shastri - Syama Krishna
• Muthuswami Dikshitar - Guruguha
• Swati Tirunal - Padmanabha/Pankajanabha
• Bhadrachala Ramadas - Ramadasu
• Papanasam Sivan - Ramadasan
• Gopalakrishna Bharathi - Gopalakrishnan
• Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavatar - Harikesha
• Narayana Teertha - Narayana Teertha
• Patnam Subramania Iyer - Venkateshwara
• Mysore Vasudevacharya - VasudevA
• Mysore V Ramarathnam - rAma
• M. D. Ramanathan - Varada dasa
• M. Balamuralikrishna - Hari and Murali
• Maharajapuram Santhanam - Maharajan
• Koteeswara Iyer - Kavi Kunjara dasa
• Kshetrayya - Muvva Gopala
• Sadashiva Brahmendra swami - Paramahamsa

External links

• Carnatic Music Krithi Audio Archive (http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/music/index.html)
• Carnatic music notation for few Tamil, Telugu, English songs at VK's website (http://www.keylessonline.com/)
• Carnatic music notation for few Telugu Songs at Gopalakrishna Palem's website (http://gopalakrishna.palem.in/music.html)
• Carnatic music notation page links at Musically Urs's website (http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/musically_urs/notation_link.html)