Shri ragam is an ancient ragam in the Carnatic tradition. It is also written as Sri or Sreeraga. This scale does not have all the seven swaras (musical notes) in the ascending scale. Shree is the asampurna melakartha equivalent of Kharaharapriya, the 22nd Melakarta rÃÂgam. It is the last of the 5 Ghana rÃÂgams of Carnatic music. It is a popular rÃÂgam that is considered to be highly auspicious.
Notably, Carnatic Shree takes the lower madhyamam being the asampurna scale equivalent of Kharaharapriya. It is not related to the Hindustani raga, Shree.
Shree is an asymmetric rÃÂgam that does not contain gÃÂndhÃÂram or dhaivatam in the ascending scale. It is a audava-vakra-sampurna rÃÂgam (or owdava, meaning pentatonic in ascending scale), where vakra indicates the zig-zag nature of jumping notes in descending scale. Its ÃÂrohaá¹Âa-avarohaá¹Âa structure (ascending and descending scale) is as follows (see swaras in Carnatic music for details on below notation and terms):
This scale uses the notes chatushruti rishabham, sadharana gandharam, shuddha madhyamam, panchamam, chatushruti dhaivatam and kaisiki nishadam.
Shree rÃÂgam has been decorated with compositions by many composers. A few of the popular kritis are listed here.
This section covers the theoretical and scientific aspect of this rÃÂgam.