Music & Musical Instruments Questions with Solutions
This topic covers Indian classical music, its two main traditions (Hindustani and Carnatic), gharanas, ragas and talas, folk music styles, and the musical instruments of India along with the artists who are famous for playing them. It also includes the four classes of instruments: string (tata), wind (sushira), percussion (avanaddha) and solid (ghana). Exam questions usually pair an instrument with its maestro, such as the sitar with Pandit Ravi Shankar, the shehnai with Ustad Bismillah Khan or the santoor with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Other common questions ask about the origin of a gharana, the instrument a folk style uses, or the class an instrument belongs to. Making a two-column list of instruments and artists is the quickest way to revise. Practise the music and musical instruments questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.
- Q21.
Prabha Atre, the renowned Hindustani classical vocalist, is related to which gharana?
A. Indore gharanaB. Kirana gharanaC. Patiala gharanaD. Gwalior gharanamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q22.
Kishori Amonkar, the renowned vocalist of Hindustani music, was associated with which gharana?
A. Mewati gharanaB. Agra gharanaC. Jaipur-Atrauli gharanaD. Kirana gharanamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q23.
Who is known as the father of Qawwali in India?
A. Amir KhusrauB. TansenC. Bulleh ShahD. KabireasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q24.
What was the earlier name of the music director A.R. Rahman?
A. Allah Rakha QureshiB. R.K. ShekharC. IlaiyaraajaD. A.S. Dileep KumarmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q25.
Who was the first Indian folk artist to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival?
A. Lakha KhanB. Teejan BaiC. Mame KhanD. Gulabo SaperamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q26.
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, who wrote the first modern treatise on the subject, is related to which field?
A. Folk theatreB. Carnatic classical musicC. Bharatanatyam danceD. Hindustani classical musicmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q27.
Ustad Alla Rakha, the classical tabla player, was popularly known as:
A. AbbajiB. DadajiC. PanditjiD. BabajimediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q28.
U. Srinivas (Uppalapu Srinivas) is associated with which musical instrument?
A. MandolinB. FluteC. VeenaD. ViolineasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q29.
'Shivaputra Siddharamayya Komkalimath' is the original name of which famous musician?
A. Pandit Mallikarjun MansurB. Pandit Bhimsen JoshiC. Pandit Kumar GandharvaD. Pandit JasrajhardAsked in SSCView solution › - Q30.
Pandit Kishan Maharaj of the Banaras gharana was a famous:
A. Sarangi playerB. Sitar playerC. Tabla playerD. Shehnai playereasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q31.
Ustad Hassu Khan was one of the founders of which gharana?
A. Kirana gharanaB. Mewati gharanaC. Patiala gharanaD. Gwalior gharanamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q32.
In which city was the singer Lata Mangeshkar born?
A. MumbaiB. IndoreC. KolhapurD. PunemediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q33.
Shahid Parvez Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Anoushka Shankar and Hara Shankar Bhattacharya are associated with which instrument?
A. SarangiB. SitarC. SantoorD. SarodeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q34.
Papanasam Sivan, often called the 'Tamil Tyagaraja', was related to which form of music?
A. Sufi musicB. Hindustani musicC. Rabindra SangeetD. Carnatic musicmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q35.
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma was an exponent of which musical instrument?
A. SitarB. SantoorC. ShehnaiD. SarodeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q36.
Who is credited with taking the shehnai from the marriage mandap to the concert hall?
A. Ustad Allauddin KhanB. Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain KhanC. Pandit Hariprasad ChaurasiaD. Ustad Bismillah KhaneasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q37.
Which singer was known as the 'Queen of Thumri'?
A. Begum AkhtarB. Girija DeviC. Kishori AmonkarD. Gangubai HangaleasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q38.
Ustad Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana, is associated with which instrument?
A. ShehnaiB. SantoorC. SarodD. TablamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q39.
Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Sabir Khan and Sandeep Das are associated with which musical instrument?
A. SarodB. FluteC. SitarD. TablamediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q40.
Who was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history?
A. Asha BhosleB. Kishore KumarC. Lata MangeshkarD. Mohammed RafimediumAsked in SSCView solution ›