UPMSP Intermediate Instrumental Music case studies
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The UPMSP Intermediate Instrumental Music examination is the Class 12 music (instrumental/vadya) paper offered under the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, the state board for secondary education in Uttar Pradesh. It is intended for students who have chosen instrumental music as one of their Intermediate subjects, usually after studying it at the High School level, and who can already play a chosen instrument - commonly sitar, sarod, violin, flute or tabla - to a basic standard. The UPMSP Intermediate Instrumental Music case studies are 5 cases and about 3,778 words.
1Yaman on the Sitar: Which Written Claims Survive the Viva?
A candidate for the Intermediate practical examination is preparing Raga Yaman on the sitar and submits this written work for internal assessment: aroha - S R G M(tivra) P D N S; avaroha - S N D P M(shuddha) G R S; vadi - Ga; samvadi - Ni; thaat - Kafi; jati - audav–sampurna. The gat is set in Teental and its mukhda is notated as 'G R S - N R G -'.
725 words, about 4 min2Placing a Jhaptal Tihai: Matra 1, 2 or 3?
A student is preparing a Jhaptal gat for the practical examination. Jhaptal is explained in class as 10 matras with vibhag 2+3+2+3, sam on 1, tali on 3 and 8, and khali on 6.
758 words, about 4 min3Classifying a Santoor Without Confusing Playing Action with Sound Source
A school receives a santoor on loan: a trapezoidal wooden box with 72 strings stretched in four courses over two curved bridges, played with two light wooden mallets. There are no frets and no mechanism to change a string's pitch while playing; the instrument is tuned to a fixed scale before the performance.
728 words, about 4 min4Reading an Unseen Bhairav Notation Line in Teental
A candidate is given this unseen notation line for a Teental gat and asked to read it aloud in tala: 1 x: S - G M 5 2: P - M G 9 0: M - r S 13 3: N S r G The candidate makes three objections: (i) 'This cannot be Raga Bhairav because there is no komal Dha in the line and the first vibhag has no komal Re'; (ii) 'The 0 at matra 9 tells the player to stop for four matras'; (iii) 'N S r G at matra 13 is an impossible phrase in Bhairav because Ni cannot precede Sa.' The teacher asks him to decide which objections are valid, to explain how the line would be counted and clapped, and to insert a three-times tihai of a 4-matra phrase so that its final bol lands on sam of the following avartan. The candidate has a copy of the prescribed raga and tala list but no recordings.
782 words, about 4 min5Twelve Minutes, a C# Tanpura and a Rusty Jhaptal Gat
A candidate enters a 12-minute practical examination with a sitar tuned to C (Sa = C). The tanpura in the hall is already tuned to C# and the examiner does not want it retuned because the next candidate is waiting.
785 words, about 4 min