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NCERT Sound of Music Part I and II

Evelyn Glennie is a deaf Scottish percussionist and musician. She lost her hearing by age 11 but continued her passion for music by learning to sense vibrations through her whole body. She feels music through her skin, hair, cheekbones and other parts of her body. Ron Forbes, a percussionist, recognized her talent and taught her techniques for sensing music without hearing. Now she performs concerts worldwide to share her gift.

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NCERT Sound of Music Part I and II

Evelyn Glennie is a deaf Scottish percussionist and musician. She lost her hearing by age 11 but continued her passion for music by learning to sense vibrations through her whole body. She feels music through her skin, hair, cheekbones and other parts of her body. Ron Forbes, a percussionist, recognized her talent and taught her techniques for sensing music without hearing. Now she performs concerts worldwide to share her gift.

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Grade: IX May 2023

Subject: English
Book: Beehive
Chapter-2 The Sound of Music
Part-I Evelyn Glennie
Notebook Work
Question Answers based on Reference to Context. Answer these questions in a few words or a
couple of sentences each.

Question 1.How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
Answer: Evelyn was seventeen but she looked less than her age when she went to the Royal Academy of
Music.

Question 2.When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer: Her deafness was noticed when she was eight-year-old. It was confirmed by the time she was
eleven.

II. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (30-40 words)

Question 1.Who helped her to continue with music? What did he do and say?
Answer: Ron Forbes helped her to continue with music. He spotted her potential and said, “Don’t listen
through your ears, try to sense it some other way.” He began by tuning two large drums to different notes.

Question 2.Name the various places and causes for which Evelyn performs.
Answer: Evelyn performed free concerts in prisons and hospitals. She made music her life and performed
many regular concerts.

III. Answer the question in two or three paragraphs (100-150 words).

Question 1.How does Evelyn hear music?


Answer: Evelyn became deaf by the time she was eleven. But she did not give up. She was determined to
lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. Ron Forbes, a percussionist spotted her potential. He
asked her not to listen through ears but try to sense it some other way. She realized she could feel the
higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down. Forbes repeated the exercise and
soon Evelyn discovered that she could sense certain notes in different parts of her body. She learnt to open
her body and mind to sounds and vibrations. She herself explained, “It pours in through every part of my
body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she played on the xylophone, she
could sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she could feel
the resonances flowing into her body. On the wooden floor she used to remove her shoes so that the
vibrations may pass through her bare feet and up her legs.

The Sound of Music


Part-II The Shehnai of Bismillah Khan.

Answer these questions in 30-40 words.

Question 1. Why did Aurangzeb ban the playing of the pungi?


Answer: Aurangzeb banned the playing of the pungi because it had a shrill and unpleasant sound.
Moreover, pungi has become the generic name of reeded noisemaker.
Question 2. How is a shehnai different from a pungi?
Answer: A shehnai is a pipe with a natural hollow that is longer and broader than a pungi. It has seven
holes on the body of the pipe. The sound of shehnai is also melodious than that of pungi.

Question 3. Where was the shehnai played traditionally? How did Bismillah Khan change this?
Answer: The shehnai was played traditionally in the temples and at the royal courts and on the occasions of
weddings and other functions worth celebrating. The credit must go to Bismillah Khan to take this
instrument onto the classical stage.

Question 4. When and how did Bismillah Khan get his big break?
Answer: Bismillah Khan got his big break with the opening of the All India Radio in Lucknow in 1938.He
started playing shehnai for a programme there.

Question 5. Where did Bismillah Khan play the shehnai on 15 August 1947? Why was the event
historic?
Answer: Bismillah Khan played the shehnai on 15 August 1947 at the Red Fort. He was the first Indian to
greet the nation with his musical instrument. This event was historic because We got independence on that
day. He poured his heart out in the presence of a large number of people including Pt. Jawahar Lai Nehru,
who later greeted the nation with his famous’ Tryst with Destiny speech’.

Question 6. Why did Bismillah Khan refuse to start a shehnai school in the U.S.A.?
Answer: He refused to start a shehnai school in the USA because he never wanted to leave India. He loved
India so much and he did not want to settle anywhere except India. That is why whenever he was in a
foreign country, he kept yearning to see Hindustan.

Question 7. Find at least two instances in the text which tell you that Bismillah Khan loves India and
Benaras.
Answer: Bismillah Khan loves India and Banaras The sound of Music 197 from the bottom of his heart. He
says that he misses the holy Ganga and India when he goes abroad. While in Mumbai, he thinks of only
Benaras and the holy river. And when he is in Benaras, he remembers the unique mattha of Dumraon.

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