Rag Desh

Quiz on the AOS4 piece

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  • Created by: Lucy
  • Created on: 09-05-11 19:04
What is the rag desh used to represent?
monsoons
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What are the main two instruments in the first extract (Shankar)?
sitar and tabla
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What is a raga?
the name for the whole piece
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In what section of the piece do the tabla appear?
Gat
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What technique does the sitar player use?
meend
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What is significant about the alap section?
there is no sense of pulse, slow, improvised
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What is the main instrument in the second extract?
vocals and sarod and saranghi
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What section does this extract showcase?
bandish
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How is the impression given that the tempo is increased?
shorter note values are used
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What are the rhythmic cycles that the tabla play called?
talas
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Give two examples of these
teen and rupak
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The musical tradition these pieces are from is...?
hindustani tradition
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The tabla player uses bols. What are they?
when the player speaks to match the beats they are playing
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The drone instrument in Indian music is called...?
tambura
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What is a rag?
series of notes the piece is based on
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Card 2

Front

What are the main two instruments in the first extract (Shankar)?

Back

sitar and tabla

Card 3

Front

What is a raga?

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

In what section of the piece do the tabla appear?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

What technique does the sitar player use?

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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Comments

Rob

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This is quite a good quiz, but the bit about raga is wrong: raga is just the plural of rag, which is the last question.

Tala are the rhythmic cycles, tal is one rhythmic cycle and talas doesn;t make sense.

Sorry for my overly fussy nit-picking, but hopefully everyone will learn better that way.

Chris

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Heplful, thanks.

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