Tag: rasa

MUSIC QUESTION AND ANSWERS:

  1. Chittasvaras interspersed with jatis

Ans: Sollukattu

  1. Pann Panchamam corresponds to which Raga

Ans: Ahiri

  1. Mattakokila is an ancient

Ans: Vina

  1. How many Alankaras have been described by Sarangadeva?

Ans:  63

  1. ‘Aavap’ is a

Ans: Nishabdhda Kriya

  1. First musician felicitated with ‘Bharat Ratna’

Ans: M S Subbalakshmi  ( Madurai Shanmukhavadivu)

  1. The propounder of Rasa Theory

Ans: Bharat

  1. The form played after Alap Vadan in string instruments vadan

Ans: Jod Alap

  1. Sitar is played with

Ans: Mizraab

10. Total number of Margi Talas according to Natyashastra:

Ans: 5

Music Question and Answers

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  1. Scholar who was the first to codify Ragas into Mela and Janya

Ans:  Ramamatya

  1. The Katapayadi Sankhya is adopted for

Ans: 72 Melakarta Scheme

  1. Purandara Dasa was also called as

Ans: Srinivasa

  1. Place – Music inscribed on rock

Ans: Kudumiyamalai

  1. Modern Thumri developed in

Ans: Avadh

  1. This is not the characteristic of Nada

Ans: Matra

  1. Tagore’s Valmiki-Pratibha is

Ans: Drama

  1. Who was Hemendranath Tagore?

Ans: Rabindranath’s elder brother

  1. Author of Abhinav Bharti

Ans: Abhinav Gupta

10.  The views of Bhatt Nayak on Rasa is called

Ans: Bhuktivad