Carnatic Quiz #30

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Carnatic Quiz #30

by Balaji Santhanam

Carnatic Quiz Series

Previous Quizzes from the Carnatic Quiz series

1. How many aksharams or counts are there in Adi thALam? *

1 point

2. Find the odd one out.

2. Three of the four clips in the link above are in the same rAgam. Find the odd one out. You don’t need to identify the rAgam or know its name. Just pattern matching is enough.
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1 point

Clip 1: SPB & S.Janaki

Clip 2: G.N.Balasubramaniam

Clip 3: M.S.Subbulakshmi

Clip 4: Lalgudi Jayaraman

3. In which Muruga temple is Muthuswamy Deekshitar supposed to have composed his first song, Sri Nathadi Guruguho, which is also part of the Guruguha Vibhakti series?
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1 point

Thirupparankunram

Pazhani

Thiruthani

Swamimalai

4. Which of the following is true about the janaka-janya (parent-child) system of rAgA classification?
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1 point

The janaka (parent) rAgA would have existed before the janya (child) rAga

The janya (child) rAgA was created from the janaka (parent) rAga

All note positions or swarasthAnams that occur in a janya rAgam would be present in the janaka rAgam

The janya rAgam will have a subset of the melodic characteristics of the janaka rAgam

All of the above

None of the above

5. Composition Type

5. Identify the type of composition in the video above. *

1 point

Thillana

Varnam

Javali

Padam

6. anasu is a part of which of the following instruments
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1 point

Nagaswaram

Mridangam

Thavil

Veena

7. Identify the musician.

7. Identify the musician in the above picture. *

1 point

Mysore T.Chowdiah

Maharajapuram Santhanam

Thanjavur S.Kalyanaraman

T.N.Rajarathnam Pillai

8. Identify the composer.

8. Who is the composer of the SriRanjani rAgam song “kANa vEndAmO”? You can hear it being sung in the movie Nandanar above.
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1 point

Neelakanta Sivan

Suddhanandha Bharathi

Papanasam Sivan

Gopalakrishna Bharathi

9. What are Thillaisthanam, Umayalapuram and Walajapet? *

1 point

Names used in thEvAram paN for the towns of Chidambaram, Kanchi and Namakkal respectively.

Schools of Thiagaraja’s sishya Parampara

The only three temple towns on whose deities Thiagaraja, Muthuswami Deekshitar and Shyama Shastri have all composed on

Temples towns that Thiagaraja had visited and composed Pancharathnams.

10. Who among the following was not a disciple of Pazhani Subramania Pillai?

1 point

Trichy Sankaran

K.S.Kalidas

Thanjavur Upendran

M.N.Kandaswamy Pillai

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