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Brandon's Delight
100
This quality describes embellishments on a melody.
What is ornamentation?
100
Mira devoted herself to this god.
Who is Krishna?
100
This term is used for ornaments in Indian raga music.
What is gamaka?
100
Sister to the Guinness World Record holder of 2011 for most studio singles ever recorded, this "melody queen" is the country's most famous playback singer.
Who is Lata Mangeshkar?
100
Raga Yaman is played in this part of the day.
What is the early evening?
200
This is a family of instruments including those that have a skin or membrane stretched across a frame.
What is the percussion family?
200
This is the object of Sufi love.
What is Beloved?
200
Name the Western solfege equivalent of Sa in Indian classical music.
What is Do?
200
Born A.S. Dileep Kumar, this man accomplished many thing since his birth in 1967. He has graduating from Trinity College London, dabbled in multiple instruments, and produced scores for various Indian films, including Slumdog Millionaire.
Who is A.R. Rahman?
200
This composer of the tenth listening example lived in the Tamil language area of South India and shunned the patronage of wealthy elites, instead choosing to perform for the common folk.
Who is Tyagaraja?
300
This person recorded professional singers in Kolkata in 1902, representing the British Gramophone Company.
Who is Fred Gaisberg?
300
This is the main instrument in the bhangra dance.
What is dhol?
300
These are the TWO drums used in Carnatic music.
What is mridangam and kanjira?
300
This band was founded by the composer of "Naya Pakistan" in 1990. It is now based in Lahore, Pakistan.
What is Junoon?
300
The poet and lyricist of of the twelfth listening example uses a mix of poetic and colloquial Urdu-Hindi vocabulary to draw on familiar themes of pensive longing.
Who is Sahir Ludhianvi?
400
These are the many practiced branches of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, that thrive throughout the Muslim world.
What are silsilas?
400
This individual is a poet admired as a nirgun bhakti sant during the 15th century.
Who is Kabir?
400
These beats require a clap in the Tintal.
What is 1 and 5?
400
Standardized formulas has frequently worked for Bollywood, Kollywood, and other Indian films. These cinematic pieces have a little something for everyone.
What are "masala" films?
400
This figure founded the Visva Bharati University, and became the first Indian to win the Noble Prize for Literature. An early Bengali thinker and poet, he saw the Bauls as representing social equality and an inspired spirituality.
Who is Rabindranath Tagore?
500
This body of water flows from the west, through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, into the Bay of Bengal.
What is the Kaveri River?
500
The bhangra first spread internationally to England during this decade.
What is the 1970's?
500
Raga Megh would be played during this event/occasion.
What is monsoon season?
500
Madan Mohan composed this musical piece for a film in which Shah Rukh Khan plays the hero, Veer.
What is "Main Yahan Hoon?"
500
The Chhathi festival begins on the sixth day of this Hindu month. In America, it straddles October and November.
What is Kartik?