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World Music Cultures: India
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1. Devotional songsfrom Hindi moies or Hindi songs coposed to be sung using the melody in a popular filmi song
Verdic Period
Filmi Git
Svara KAlpana
Standard Language of South India
2. Mahabarata (war stories) - Ramayana (hindu epic) - Puranas (stories)
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
Smirti Texts (understood to be divine in origin)
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
Filmi Git
3. It gained independence in 1947 from British
Avarohana
Svara KAlpana
Rhythmic Hin
When did India gain its independence and from whom?
4. Alap -Jor -Gat -Jhala
Compositional Form for Hindustini Raga
Gat
Mantra
Swara
5. Lead singer is joined by an accopanyiny instrumentalists
Smirti Texts (understood to be divine in origin)
Rhythmic Hin
Qawwali
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
6. Western songs with Sanskirt Lyrics
Nottuswaram
Raga
Mantra
Filmi Git
7. Bronze age - Verdic Period - Golden Age - Classical Period - British Raj
Historical Periods
Smirti Texts (understood to be divine in origin)
Verdic Period
Tala
8. Sanskirt
classical language of India during verdic times
Gat
Avarohana
Swara
9. Tabla-hand drum - two instruments :tabla and bayan - syahai-black paste
Jor
Rhythmic Hin
Historical Periods
Smirti Texts (understood to be divine in origin)
10. Vina ( sometimes voice or violin) 4 strings - 3 tala strings
Melodic Kriti
Golden Age
Moganam Raga
Drone Kriti
11. Devotional songsfrom Hindi moies or Hindi songs coposed to be sung using the melody in a popular filmi song
Predominant religion of India
Moganam Raga
classical language of India during verdic times
Filmi Git
12. Verdic:Rgveda:hymn - Anciet oral traditions - Yajurveda:ritual -Samaveda:actual noted verse -Athraveda-potions and magic
Predominant religion of India
Shurti Texts (Verdic/ Upanishads)
Functional laters of Hindustini Raga
Functional layers of Carnatic Kriti
13. No set meter or drumming ; rasa begins to emerge
Alap
Geetham
Moganam Raga
Predominant religion of India
14. A way of seeing and being seen by the divine
Alap
British Raj
Darshan
Avarohana
15. Melodic Framework (color -passion -attachmet)
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
Mantra
Svara KAlpana
Raga
16. Downward melodic progression
Avarohana
Golden Age
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
Bols
17. Hinduism and Indo-aryan
Bronze Age
Drone Kriti
Predominant religion of India
Jhala
18. Tambura-chorodophone -4 strins -tunes to sa and pa
Jor
Drone Hin
Melodic Kriti
Gamaka
19. Taste -essence and flavor
Filmi Git
Rasa
Nottuswaram
Jhala
20. Dravidian
Moganam Raga
Nottuswaram
Standard Language of South India
Classical Period
21. Bronze age - Verdic Period - Golden Age - Classical Period - British Raj
Historical Periods
Jor
Nada Brahma
Rhythmic Hin
22. Alap -Jor -Gat -Jhala
Bronze Age
Raga
Compositional Form for Hindustini Raga
Rhythmic Kriti
23. Way of speaking and being spoken to by the divine
Jhala
Mantra
Predominant religion of India
Raga
24. Tabla-hand drum - two instruments :tabla and bayan - syahai-black paste
South Indian Trimurti
Rasa
Geetham
Rhythmic Hin
25. Tambura-chorodophone -4 strins -tunes to sa and pa
Filmi Git
Drone Hin
Alap
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
26. Note
Historical Periods
Jor
Swara
Predominant religion of India
27. Song (simpliest form of Caranatic music)
Functional laters of Hindustini Raga
Swara
Qawwali
Geetham
28. Western songs with Sanskirt Lyrics
Svara KAlpana
British Raj
Nottuswaram
Rasa
29. Dravidian
Predominant religion of India
Classical Period
Nada Brahma
Standard Language of South India
30. Note
Jhala
Swara
Svara KAlpana
Classical Period
31. Taste -essence and flavor
Jor
Historical Periods
Predominant religion of India
Rasa
32. Brahmanic control of Hinduism
Shurti Texts (Verdic/ Upanishads)
Arohana
Svara KAlpana
Classical Period
33. Mridangram- instrument - double membranophone ; karanai-black paste
Rhythmic Kriti
Filmi Git
South Indian Trimurti
Alap
34. No set meter or drumming ; rasa begins to emerge
Svara KAlpana
Alap
Darshan
Raga
35. Upward jump in tempo - increase of intensity
Rasa
Swara
Jhala
Golden Age
36. Vocalizations of the tabla
Tala
Bols
Darshan
Filmi Git
37. Hinduism and Indo-aryan
Functional laters of Hindustini Raga
Verdic Period
classical language of India during verdic times
Predominant religion of India
38. Lead singer is joined by an accopanyiny instrumentalists
Drone Hin
Functional layers of Carnatic Kriti
Qawwali
Gamaka
39. Mahabarata (war stories) - Ramayana (hindu epic) - Puranas (stories)
Smirti Texts (understood to be divine in origin)
Drone Hin
South Indian Trimurti
Avarohana
40. Sound of god
Classical Period
Qawwali
Nada Brahma
Standard Language of Northern India
41. Contains 5 of 7 songs
Moganam Raga
Jhala
Darshan
Functional laters of Hindustini Raga
42. India was united for the first time on a large scale by Chandragupta
Darshan
Standard Language of South India
Golden Age
Svara KAlpana
43. Brahmanic control of Hinduism
Classical Period
Rhythmic Hin
Mantra
Standard Language of Northern India
44. Verdic:Rgveda:hymn - Anciet oral traditions - Yajurveda:ritual -Samaveda:actual noted verse -Athraveda-potions and magic
Gat
Bols
Nottuswaram
Shurti Texts (Verdic/ Upanishads)
45. Sitar-long necked lute with 18 strings and playing is done on baj jar
Functional layers of Carnatic Kriti
Geetham
Melodic Hin
Rhythmic Kriti
46. Upward melodic progression
Standard Language of South India
Arohana
Qawwali
Melodic Hin
47. Improvisation based on solfege syallables
Svara KAlpana
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
Bronze Age
Compositional Form for Carnatic Kriti
48. Upward jump in tempo - increase of intensity
Gamaka
Rasa
Nottuswaram
Jhala
49. Vina ( sometimes voice or violin) 4 strings - 3 tala strings
Mantra
Melodic Kriti
Jor
Verdic Period
50. Tambura-chordophone -4 strings tuned to sa and pa
Rhythmic Kriti
Drone Kriti
Filmi Git
Standard Language of South India