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Question 1

What is the title of the lesson?

Answer 1

Instrumental Music of South Asia and Middle East

Question 2

Where are the instruments primarily used in?

Answer 2

North India (Hindustani Sangeet)

Question 3

Where is it used in?

Answer 3

South Indian Music (Carnatic Sangeet)

Question 4

What is it often similar to?

Answer 4

It’s often similar to vocal music

Question 5

What make it distinctive though?

Answer 5

It’s instrumental styles

Question 6

How many know traditional sytems for classifications of instruments are there?

Answer 6

There are 5

Question 7

What are those classifications of Instruments?

Answer 7

Ghan, Avanaddh, Sushir, Tat, Vitat

Question 8

What is Ghan?

Answer 8

A non-membranous percussive instrument but with solid resonators.
It is one of the oldest classes of instrument in India.
It may also be a melodic instrument to keep tal.

Question 9

What are the 4 instruments classified unto Ghan?

Answer 9

Ghatam, Majira, Kartal, Nout

Question 10

It is a large, narrow-mouthed earthenware water pot used as a percussion instrument in India.

Answer 10

It’s Ghatam

Question 11

It’s a small, finger cymbals from India, Tibet, and Pakistan. They are played in pairs with each cymbal tuned to a different note.

Answer 11

It’s Manjira

Question 12

It’s a pair of wooden blocks or frames with small metal jingle mounted in them.

Answer 12

It’s Kartal

Question 13

A small pot used in Kashmir as a percussion instrument, may be thought as North Indian

Answer 13

It’s Nout also called Nuhtis

Question 14

What is Avanaddh?

Answer 14

Described as a membranous percussive instrument, typically comprise the drums.

Question 15

What does Avanddh include?

Answer 15

Dat, Dhol, and Tabla

Question 16

A large Kurdish and Persian frame drum used in popular and classical music.

Answer 16

It’s Dat

Question 17

Refer to any of a number of similar typed of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variants, throughout the Indian subcontinent

Answer 17

It’s Dhol

Question 18

A pair of twin hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.

Answer 18

It’s tabla

Question 19

Where does the name Tabla come from

Answer 19

It likely comes from the word tabl, an aramaic word for drum

Question 20

What is Sushir?

Answer 20

It is characterized by the use of air to excite the various resonators

Question 21

What is in Sushir?

Answer 21

Shankh, Bansuri, Shrutibox, Shehnai

Question 22

A conch shell of ritual and religious importance in Hinduism.

Answer 22

Shankh

Question 23

What animal does the shell belong to?

Answer 23

A large predatory sea snail, Trubinella phyrum, found in the Indian Ocean.

Question 24

A side blown flute, which originates from the Indian subcontinent, aerophone, produced from bamboo, belong to a Hindustani music.

Answer 24

It’s Bansuri

Question 25

From Indian subcontinent, works on a system of bellows, similar to a harmonium, used to provide a drone in a practice session or concert of Indian classical music

Answer 25

Shrutibox (Surpeti)

Question 26

From the Indian subcontinent, is made of wood with a double reed at one end and a metal or wooden flared bell at the other end.

Answer 26

It's Shehnai

Question 27

What is Tat?

Answer 27

Tat is referred to as Vina during the old civilization, where the instruments are stringed which can be plucked

Question 28

What does Tat include?

Answer 28

Sitar, Chitrarina, Ekatara, Gopichand, Rabab

Question 29

A 19-stringed instrument from India, has a long neck and 19 strings

Answer 29

It's Sitar

Question 30

A 20 or 21-string fretless lute, in carnatic music, around the late 19th and early 20th centuries it begun to be known as Gotuvadyan.

Answer 30

It's Chitravina

Question 31

1-Stringed instrument, used in South Asia before, and was used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan now.

Answer 31

It's Ektara

Question 32

Has a stretched single string, an animal skin over a head (made of dried pumpkin/gourd, wood or coconut) and pole neck or split bamboo cane neck.

Answer 32

It's Gopichand

Question 33

Lute-like instrument, from Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan

Answer 33

It's Rabab

Question 34

What is Vitat

Answer 34

It is a classification of bowed strings, one of the oldest classifications, of instruments, does not occupy a place in classical Indian music until the last few centuries.

Question 35

What is in Vitat

Answer 35

Banam, Esrgj, Chikara, Sarangi

Question 36

It is an ancient fiddle, played by Santals, is an 1-stringed instruments, accompanied by the Dasae, Sohrae, Don, Lagre, and Karam.

Answer 36

It's Banam

Question 37

It is also known as the India harp, found in 2 forms throughout the north, central, and east regions of India.

Answer 37

It's Esrgj

Question 38

It is a bowed string instrument, from Rajasthan and is used to play Indian folk music, it is a simple spike fiddle, played similar to Sarangi, by sliding fingernails on the strings.

Answer 38

It's Chikara

Question 39

It is a bowed, short-necked string instrument, from India and Nepal, it is used in Hindsutani classical music, most popular instrument in the western part of nepal, which resembles to the sound of the human voice, able to imitate vocal ornaments such as gamaks (shakes) and me ends (sliding movements)

Answer 39

It's Sarangi