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B.A. (Music) Entrance Exam: Question Paper

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1. The Indian concept of Music includes singing, playing instruments and ----. (a) painting (b) sculpture (c) dancing (d) acting 2. The sharp state of a musical note is called ---- in Hindustani music. (a) Komal (b) Taar (c) Teevra (d) Shuddha 3. The pair of --- and --- notes is never considered as Vadi-Samvadi for any Raga. (a) R-D (b) G-N (c) S- m (d) S-P 4. Komal Nishad along with all other Shuddha Swaras can be identified as ---- Thaat. (a) Khamaj (b) Kalyan (c) (d) Bhairawi 5. The famous playback singer ----- was awarded with BharatRatna. (a) Asha Bhosle (b) Shreya Ghoshal (c) Suman Kalyanpur (d) Lata Mangeshkar 6. learnt music under ----. (a) Sawai Gandharva (b) Gajanan buwa Joshi (c) Yashavant buwa Joshi (d) Babanrao Haldankar 7. The song form consisting of poetry, Sargam, syllables of percussion instruments and is called as ------. (a) Khayal (b) Triwat (c) Chaturang (d) 8. The middle beat of the Tala is called as ------. (a) Sama (b) Khanda (c) Kala (d) Theka 9. Tala ----- constists of 7 beats. (a) Jhap Tala (b) Sapta Tala (c) Ek Tala (d) Roopak 10. The instruments having strings are classified in the ------category. (a) Ghana (b) Tantu (c) Avanaddha (d) Sushir 11. The note Dhaiwat is ---- in Raga Bhoop. (a) Varjya (b) Vivadi (c) Samvadi (d) Komal 12. The ---- music system is prevalent in southern parts of . (a) Carnatic (b) Hindustani (c) Symphony (d) Rajasthani 13. Pandit was famous for renditions of ------. (a) Dhrupad (b) Pop songs (c) Khayal (d) Fusion items 14. Tansen was ---- singer. (a) Dhrupad (b) (c) Khayal (d) Tappa 15. Gandharva Mahavidyalay was established by ------. (a) V D Paluskar (b) V N Bhatkhande (c) Bhimsen Joshi (d) Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale 16. The Gwalior was disseminated in Maharashtra by ------. (a) Abdul Karim Khan (b) Kumar Gandharva (c) (d) Balkrishna buwa Ichalkaranjikar 17. was a popular ---- player. (a) Bansuri (b) Shehnai (c) Sarod (d) Sarangi 18. The music for the recently popular film ‘Bahubali’ is composed by ------. (a) A R Rehman (b) Shankar-Ehsan-Loy (c) M M Keervani (d) Ilaya Raja 19. The famous singer composer ------composed ‘Geet Ramayan’. (a) Shridhar Phadke (b) Ram Kadam (c) Ram Kadam (d) Vasant Prabhu 20. The popular Natya Geet ‘Deva Gharache Dnyat Kunala’ was composed by ------. (a) Ram Marathe (b) (c) Chhota Gandharva (d) Ramdas Kamat