Hinduism, Muslim, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism
What are the main religions in India?
100
It is evident in the clothes she wears.
What is a woman's beauty?
100
How ~90% of music is performed.
What is improvisation?
100
The instruments are usually made by the musicians themselves out of any available materials.
What are Folk musicians?
100
The category of dance that are simple dances used to express joy.
What are Folk and tribal dances?
200
The basis of intertribal economy.
What is bartering?
200
The way Indians act toward visitors and people in authority.
What is hospitable?
200
Tala
What is the rhythmic basis of a piece of music?
200
The category of music that takes years and years of dedicated study to learn.
What is Classical music?
200
The category of dance that is “artistic yoga” meant to reveal those concepts that are unseen.
What is Classical/traditional dance?
300
The type of government India has today – it being the largest one in the world.
What is a democracy?
300
According to gender, with men taking the lead and women working behind-the-scenes.
What is the way work is divided?
300
Raga
What is the melodic basis of a piece of music?
300
The category of music that is involved with weddings, engagements, births, festivals, education, planting, harvesting, and anytime the Indians feel like having a celebration.
What is Folk Music?
300
The clothing worn for each different form of dance whether Classical, Folk, or Tribal.
What is a costume?
400
Social classifications justified by the predominant Hindu theory.
What is a caste?
400
The three areas that provide material for the performing arts such as music, theatre, and dance.
What is religion, mythology, and literature?
400
They are used to pass music onto the next generation since music is an oral tradition.
What are verbal syllables?
400
The category of music that is used for the betterment of oneself and for self-realization.
What is Classical Music?
400
These two body parts are the most expressive in Classical dance and are similar to the verbal syllables used in music to communicate with or tell a story to the audience.
What are the hands and feet?
500
The oldest literary language in the world and created in India.
What is Sanskrit?
500
The saying that illustrates that although 1,000s of different ethnic groups, languages, and even religions exist in India, everyone works toward the collective good so all may live alongside each other. (Hint: “___ in ___”)
What is “Unity in Diversity”?
500
Something that India uses 22 of in their melodies versus the 12 used in Western (European and American) music.
What are microtones?
500
Used in Classical music, they are romantic, humorous, pathetic, angry, heroic, fearful, disgusted, amazed, peaceful. (Hint: “(Number) ___ments”).
What are the "Nine Sentiments"?
500
Bharatanatyam
What is the most ancient / traditional dance / most practiced worldwide / highly symbolic dance?