v1.0 - All Sixteen Notes and Seventy-Two Scales

Lily Raga makes it easy to notate Carnatic melodies in standard staff notation using Lilypond, a language for typesetting music. It defines carnatic style note names and scales in the form of Lilypond Header files.

This version (v1.0) is the complete package: contains 16 & 7 note names, and all 72 basic scales. All the ragas are based on these 72 scales, so, any carnatic melody can be notated with these.

Melam scales

72 melam scales are defined in their respective header files. Each of them defining

• Swara-Sthanams: 16 Pitches including enharmonics
• saa - the Tonic
• raa, rii, ruu - 3 varieties of the Second
• gaa, gii, guu - Thirds
• maa, mii - Fourths
• paa - The Perfect Fifth
• dha, dhi, dhu - Sixths
• naa, nii, nuu - Sevenths
• 7 Note names sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, according to the specific melam scale.

carnatic.ly

Copy of 15th melam scale Malayamalavagowla, which is widely taught as the first scale. This is for the quick-starter: just include carnatic.ly and get started with scoring using the 16 note names.

Extras

• Ruby script to generate these 72 mela header files
• Example usage