1. What is a fundamental performance component found in Carnatic music?
2. Which Indian goddess is depicted in white garments, symbolizing her purity and knowledge of the highest form of being?
3. What is the term for the pitch of a song (often the home rag pitch)?
4. What term refers to "teacher" in south Indian music?
5. What is the organizational system referring to the rhythmic cycles heard underneath a melody called?
6. Shastri, Tyagaraja, and Muthuswami Dikshitar make up a group of 18th-century Carnatic composers that are known as The ________.
7. What is the drone instrument in Carnatic music called?
8. Who is considered to be the “grandfather of Carnatic music?”
9. What term refers to comparable South Indian tradition of “classical” music?
10. What is the term for scales or modes in Carnatic music?
11. What are four of the key instruments in Carnatic music?
12. Which city in India did Carnatic music flourish and do students still travel to work with distinguished gurus?
13. What is the sound made by the drone instrument called?
14. The Kriti is a Carnatic music form in how many parts?
15. What is the section of a song that has a slow introduction and explores the Swara?
16. Who helped make Carnatic music a worldwide phenomenon in the 20th century?
17. What are Carnatic musical associations (clubs) called?