Raga identification made easy!

Week 475 Special Quiz


(NOTE: This quiz is now over. See below for quiz answers and winners)

Note from Raga Surabhi Quiz Master's Desk


We thank and congratulate all the participants of this special quiz for their interest, time and effort! We are delighted to see many rasikas getting the perfect score! Three cheers and big salute to all of them!

» Perfect Scorers - Jayaram, Vasudevan S, Vasuki, Prerna - Pranava, Durai S, Sarath, Swaathi R, Raveendranathan R M, Ranjani S, Ramadass V, Sandhya R, Varsha V, Lakshmanan, Chandramohan N, Sankaranarayanan T K, Sujatha S, Ravichandran N, Sattananthan S, Ramki K, Anuradha L, Deepa R, Arkanath S, Nithya N, Srinivasan U.
» Missed one or two - Lalitha S, Ramya, Nagarajan Iyer, Aparna G, Shaila K, Krishna Kumari, Vijaya, Sriram S, Saakshi C, Meera N

Introduction


We all know that a raga is a combination of a set of swaras. And since there are only 16 swarasthanas and there are hundreds of ragas, the same swaras or sequence of swaras can be featured in different ragas.

For example, the pentatonic ragas, Hamsadwani and Mohanam have just one note difference, S R2 G3 P, being their common notes. If one were to draw an intersection of ragas Mohanam and Hamsadwani, the intersection would obviously feature these four notes.

This quiz is our imagination of making two ragas intersect and see what those notes / phrases are :) We have provided audio clips which contain phrases that can occur in at least a couple of ragas. Rasikas have to match the audio clips with the raga pairs provided in the table. Not very clear??

Listen to the first clip (sample clip) in the tabular column below.

This phrase could occur in both the ragas Mayamalavagowlai and Lalitha, right? Therefore, the sample clip needs to be matched with Mayamalavagowlai-Lalitha pair. Got it?

So go ahead and match the audio clips with the correct raga pairs! All the best and have lots of fun with it!!

NOTE: All answers to be sent to quiz@ragasurabhi.com on or before 12th October 2018.

Please send the email your answers with the subject "Special Quiz 475", in the following format:

Question number - Raga Pair


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Special Quiz - The Raga Intersection


Match the following
QuestionsRaga Pairs
(Sample answer) Mayamalavagowlai - Lalitha
Pair 1: Chakravakam - Malayamarutham
Pair 2: Vachaspati - Ramapriya
Pair 3: Hamsanandi - Sunadavinodini
Pair 4: Thilang - Nagaswarali
Pair 5: Hamsadwani - Hamsanadam
Pair 6: Pantuvarali - Poorvikalyani
Pair 7: Hindolam - Chandrakauns
Pair 8: Abhogi - Sriranjani
Pair 9: Vijayanagari - Chandrajyoti
Pair 10: Amritavarshini - Mandari

NOTE: All answers to be sent to quiz@ragasurabhi.com on or before 12th October 2018.

Please send the email your answers with the subject "Special Quiz 475", in the following format:

Question number - Raga Pair

 

Special Quiz 475 Answers


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