Cultural Knowledge
Hindustani music is from this part of India
What is North India?
The name of the membranophone used in Hindustani musical performance
What is tabla?
A set of "rules, moods, and emotions"
What is raag?
The name of flatted notes
What is komal?
A rhythmic pattern that repeats in cycles
What is taal?
Carnatic music is from this part of India
What is South India?
The hand-pumped reed organ that Rachna Bodas brought with her to accompany her singing
What is harmonium?
The Achal Swar (non-moving) notes, by their syllable names
What is Sa and Pa?
The number of notes in an octave (Saptak)
What is 12?
The number of beats in Teentaal
What is 16?
One of the experiences that Indian classical music provides
What is mood or time or meditation?
The plucked lute chordophone drone instrument that Rachna Bodas re-created on a phone app in class
What is tanpura?
The number of "pure notes" (Shuddha Swar) in Hindustani music
1 of 2 names for "practices" (the repetition of short melodic fragments)
What is Alankaar or Sargam?
The name of the beats you clap on in a Teental and the numbers for those beats
What is Taali and 1, 5, and 13?
The name of the lower octave (below the "root" Sa)
What is Mandra Saptak?
The minimum number of notes in a raag (in both ascending and descending order)
What is 5?
The name that refers to the number of notes in a raag
What is Jaati?
The combination of Aaroh and Avroh that allows the listener to understand and recognize an entire raag
What is Pakad?
The name of the first of 2 portions of a Sargam Geet ("notation song")
What is Sthai?
The Sargam Geet we learned in class is in this raag
What is Raag Bhoopali?