Madhyama Second Year
मध्यमा द्वितीय वर्ष
Examination conducted by Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal (ABGMVM)
Note · सूचना
Forty minutes is allotted for this examination. The tanpura is mandatory for the base note. Harmonium accompaniment is not accepted. A different raag should be asked in each column so that the full syllabus is examined.
Theory · शास्त्र
Detailed exposition of all prescribed raags and a comparative study of their similarities and differences with examples; identifying a raag from a group of notes and elaborating it. Detailed study of every taal from the first year onward, with practice writing them in both the Vishnu Digambar and Bhatkhande notations. Ability to write dugun and chaugun of all prescribed taals in both notations, and to notate every learned bandish in both systems.
Definitions · परिभाषाएँ
Introduction to modern and ancient raag lakshan, jaatigayan, sanyas, vinyas, apanyas, alpatva-bahutva, aavirbhav-tirobhav, and gayaki-nayaki. Biographies of Gopal Nayak, Amir Khusro, Man Singh Tomar, Jayadeva, Tyagaraja, Tansen and Purandaradasa. Bharata’s division of the 22 shrutis among the seven notes of the ancient scale. Detailed knowledge of the views on the merits and faults of singers set out in the Sangeet Ratnakar.
Ability to write essays on: classical music and folk music; the contribution of science to the development of music; literature and music; and the importance of music in life.
Practical · क्रियात्मक
Swar Knowledge (Notes) · स्वरज्ञान
Ability to tune the tanpura to one’s own pitch. Special preparation of taans. Ability to develop a raag properly and present its true form. Building the elaboration through aalap and bol-aalap. Basic knowledge of tuning the tabla and playing the theka.
Raag Knowledge · रागज्ञान
In the following six raags: a vilambit khayal (in two different taals) and a drut khayal, or masitkhani and razakhani gats. Command of the mukhda of each raag is required, and each must be elaborated for fifteen minutes. Six further raags are prescribed for general knowledge.
Raags · राग:
The first six raags are for detailed study; the remaining six for general knowledge.
- Ability to sing one dhrupad and one dhamar in dugun, tigun and chaugun in the above raags. Instrumental students prepare the same number of gats in Teevra and Aada Chautaal.
- Presenting taranas or drut gats in any two of the prescribed raags.
- Ability to sing or play the Mandal prayer "Jai Jagdish Hare".
- Ability to present one bhajan, one ghazal, one patriotic song and one folk song or dhun.
Taal Knowledge (Rhythm) · ताल-ज्ञान
Reciting dugun of Roopak, Deepchandi and Chautaal. Ability to recite 3-against-2 and 2-against-3 with the help of counts, or to transform one taal into another.
Marking Scheme · अंकपत्रिका
| Description · विवरण | Marks · अंक |
|---|---|
| Bandish with aalap and taans in one of three alternative raags (seven minutes) | 14 |
| Bandish with two aalaps or taans in another raag from this year | 8 |
| Bandish only, with characteristic aalap, in one further raag from this year and one earlier raag (4+4) | 8 |
| Madhya laya bandish with full elaboration in one of this year’s raags (five minutes) | 10 |
| Bandish with two aalaps and five taans in another raag | 8 |
| Bandish with three aalaps in an earlier raag | 7 |
| Dhrupad and dhamar (for instruments, an equivalent gat and rhythmic alankar in thaah) | 6 |
| Chaugun of the sthayi, antara, or of the alankar | 9 |
| Either a tarana or a bandish/gat in drut Ektaal, in this year’s raags | 10 |
| Any one semi-classical song form or dhun | 10 |
| Reciting two of this year’s thekas with taali and khali | 4 |
| Tigun of one and chaugun of another (3+3) | 6 |
| Identifying one vilambit and one madhya laya theka | 4 |
| Reciting 3-against-2 and 2-against-3 with the help of counts | 6 |
| Raag vistar — aalap in two raags from this year and three from last year | 20 |
| Raag identification — two raags from this year and three from last year | 10 |
| Reading notation — a four-matra line including full, half and quarter matra symbols, and playing and singing a rhythmic sargam geet | 10 |
| Total · कुल | 150 |
Theory (Written) · शास्त्र (लिखित)
| Written theory paper (minimum 35 marks) | 100 |
| Total Theory · कुल शास्त्र | 100 |
Other Exams
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Praveshika First Year
Praveshika Second Year
Madhyama First Year
Visharad First Year
Visharad Second Year
Alankar First Year
Alankar Second Year
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