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Kakinada CS Krishnaswamy Iyer
He was a composer as well as a musicologist. He composed parAkEla nannu in kEdAragauLa and shrIgAnalOla, a rAgamAlika in nine rAgas. He also published Sangita Pratama Siksha Prakaranam in 1913 and Tyagaraja Sata Kirtana Swaravali in 1911. Credit goes to him for releasing the first compilation of Patnam Subramanya Iyer's varnams, under the title Sri Venkatesa Tana Varnangal. The book was published by M/S Graves Cookson and Co, in the Scottish Press, Madras and released on 1st March 1917.
The publication was funded by Rao Saheb CS Ramachandra Iyer of Kanjapalli, then Assistant Registrar of High Court of Madras, Appellate Side. The title was decided on the basis of Patnam's mudras which were based on the word Venkateswara. The book has Adi tALa varnams of Patnam's in rAgAs nATa, shrI, dEvamanOhari, mukhAri, AbhOgi, hamsadhvani and navarAgamAlika. It also has his aTa tALa varnams in rAgAs nATTakuranji, sAvEri, pUrNacandrika, yadukula kAmbOji, sahAna, cakravAkam and aThANa. Krishnaswamy Iyer, in his foreword says he also had the manuscripts of five more varnams of Patnam, of which two were in balahamsa, two in Ahiri and one in malayamArutam.
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