Quiz 3: Week Seven

Question 1

Vedas

Answer 1

Orally transmitted Hindu scriptures

Question 2

Natya Shastra

Answer 2

Theoretical treatise on the performing arts

Question 3

Hindustani music

Answer 3

the Northern India music

Question 4

Carnatic music

Answer 4

the Southern India music

Question 5

Raga

Answer 5

“that which colors the mind” concept fusing musical scale, melodic shape, and emotion

Question 6

Melakarta System

Answer 6

Carnotic musical system, the parent scale

Question 7

Raga Mala

Answer 7

an example of the melakarta system, a genre of miniature paining depicting a raga

Question 8

Tala

Answer 8

The Time Cycle, organization of time, recurring metric cycles

Question 9

Solkattu

Answer 9

spoken drum patterns

Question 10

Drone (Tambura)

Answer 10

frame raga and played throughout

Question 11

Melody (Veena)

Answer 11

7 stringed lute, sometimes sung

Question 12

Percussion (Mridangam)

Answer 12

double sided drum, the bedrock of an ensemble

Question 13

Microtonality

Answer 13

examining the notes in between basic scale notes, ex the notes in between piano keys, can be played on a stringed instrument

Question 14

Sabhas

Answer 14

cultural centers that sponsor concert, dance, and plays

Question 15

Gurukula System

Answer 15

system of apprenticeship

Question 16

Alapana

Answer 16

Improvised introduction to a raga in free rhythm

Question 17

Tanam

Answer 17

A melodic improvisation, strongly rhythmic but without tala

Question 18

Kriti

Answer 18

The principal song form of South Indian classical music

Question 19

Tavi Avartanam

Answer 19

Percussion solo in a concert

Question 20

Orientalism

Answer 20

way of seeing/portraying the East, says more of the West than it does the East

Question 21

Chutney

Answer 21

Indo-Carribean music and dance with western and Indian folk instruments, simple lyrics of life and love

Question 22

Sundar Popo

Answer 22

King of Chutney - Suraje My Darling

Question 23

Bhangra

Answer 23

British Indian popular music based in Punjabi folk dance and form of youthful rebellion

Question 24

Tharu

Answer 24

Nepal’s 4th largest ethnic group, indigenous to the Terai who are culturally and linguistically diverse

Question 25

Sherpa

Answer 25

a member of a Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet, renowned for their skill in mountaineering

Question 26

Folk Music

Answer 26

everyday musical invention, a working practice, perceived as timeless, folk music traditions are integral to community identity and belonging

Question 27

Sarangi

Answer 27

a bowed, short-necked string instrument from India as well as Nepal and Pakistan which is used in Hindustani classical music

Question 28

Madal

Answer 28

is used mainly for rhythm-keeping in Nepalese folk music, is the most popular and widely used as hand drum in Nepal.

Question 29

Sakhya Parya naach

Answer 29

A song and dance, a ritual that is not performed out of season, part of the Tharu girlhood