Popular ragas by number of songs
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- Type
- website
- Level
- beginner
- Language
- en
- Cost
- free
- Topics
- raga, compositions
What it is
A table of the 100 ragas with the most compositions, counted over a list of 38,000 songs, with the count for each raga.
Why it is useful here
A published, countable measure of how commonly each raga is composed in, used here to rate how likely a beginner is to meet a melakarta.
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Verification
Status verified, checked on by http-fetch. Downloaded the page and parsed all 100 name and count pairs. The page says the table and composition list were contributed by Lakshman Ragde, who performed the analysis, and is marked updated on 08/02/2011. It advises discounting some ragas whose songs are mostly by one composer (Padi, Sanamta, Ramakriya).