PUBLIC EXAMINATION In - Academy Of Fine Arts (London)

ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (LONDON)
PUBLIC EXAMINATION
in
CARNATIC MUSIC
VOCAL & I�STRUME�TAL
23 rd April 2005
Grade Five – Audio Visual Examination
Instructions to the Examiner or Administrator :
Total time should be not more than 45 mins
1. Please play track 1 from the enclosed CD. Ask the examinees to identify
the raga of the kriti being sung. The raga is in the syllabus. Then ask
whether the raga is a Janaka or Janya. If it is identified as Janaka no
answer to be given, but if it is identified as Janya then the examinees
are asked to write the swara or swaras missing in the Arohana and
Avarohana.
2. Part a of the question is self explanatory.
Part b, please play the track 2 from the CD. The examinees are expected
to identify the musical instruments being played
3. Track 3 and followed by track 4 from the CD shall be played next.
Students are asked to listen carefully to the tracks being played and
identify which track is kriti and which track is keertana.
Note: If the students have identified the correct answer – then don’t waste
time by playing the full track. Go on to the next track.
4. Please play track 5 from the CD. Examinees are expected to identify a
string instrument, a wind instrument and 3 of the 4 percussions being
played in the track.
5. Question is self explanatory.
Please make notes and inform the Academy should there be any
concerns with the Audio Visual Examination. The tracks recorded
in the CD are within the Grade’s syllabus
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