Life Sketches and Contributions of Musicians and Musicologists
Names you must be able to place
- Bharat: Natyashastra; 22 shrutis, three gramas, murchhana.
- Sharangdev: Sangeet Ratnakar (13th century), the encyclopaedic Sanskrit treatise on raga, tala and prabandha.
- Amir Khusrau: tradition credits him with tarana, qaul and early qawwali.
- Tansen: Akbar's navaratna; legends of Deepak and Megh Malhar; his son Bilas Khan is credited with Bilaskhani Todi.
- Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860–1936): ten-thaat system, Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati, Kramik Pustak Malika, first All India Music Conference at Baroda in 1916, Marris College Lucknow in 1926.
- Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (1872–1931): Gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Lahore, 1901; Devanagari notation; music education for the ordinary learner.
- Abdul Karim Khan and Faiyaz Khan: Kirana and Agra pillars; Faiyaz Khan was called Aftab-e-Mausiqi.
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan: Patiala, equally at home in khayal and thumri.
- Onkarnath Thakur: Sangeetanjali. S. N. Ratanjankar: Abhinav Geetanjali, Bhatkhande's disciple.
Worked example
Match "ten thaats" to Bhatkhande, "Gandharva Mahavidyalaya" to Paluskar, "Sangeet Ratnakar" to Sharangdev, "22 shrutis" to Bharat. Asked why Bhatkhande matters, answer with the raga classification plus institutional work - notation-based teaching and schools - not a birth date alone.
Traps
- Swapping Bharat and Sharangdev.
- Attributing the ten-thaat system to Paluskar.
- Offering Vyankatmakhi's 72 melakartas as Bhatkhande's thaats.
- Listing dates with no contribution attached.