True or False: India, one the countries in South Asia, was colonized by the British but were able to retain their culture. For them, music is a sacred form of art. The study of Indian music begins with the religious chants called the Veda, composed by a tribe of nomadic shepherds.

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True or False: These hymns are sung without accompaniment. The art of Indian music has been called guided improvisation, which means that at all times, the musician must be guided simultaneously by the raga and the tala.

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True or False: There are two kinds of Indian music: Hindustani which belongs to the north and has a Moslem influence, and Karnatak which belongs to the south and is basically Hindu.

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True or False: TALA – is the metrical cycles of beats.

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True or False: LAYA – is the tempo in Indian music. The laya may vary from fast (druta) to medium (maghya) or slow (vilmabita).

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True or False: MATRA – is the beat in Hindustani music and askhara in Carnatic music.

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True or False: DRONE – is an important element in their music.

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True or False: RAGA – is a combination of a scale and a melody. Each raga has its own mood such as happiness, sorrow, or peace. There are two principal tones of the raga: vadi and samvadi.

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True or False: SHRUTI – is the smallest interval tone in Indian music. In Western music, it is called microtones.

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True or False: GAMAKA – ornamentation in Indian music.

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True or False: SARGAM – is the Indian solfege syllables, they are equivalent to western solfege syllables.

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