Hi All, This is my blog for my students. I will post reports about my trip as it goes along and some of your homework will come from reading the blog and emailing me the answers.
When I go to India I stay in Calcutta (or Kolkata as many local people write it). When I stay in Kolkata I live in an apartment that my teachers own and rent to their visiting students (like me). It is in a neighborhood called Tollygunge where many great musicians live (like my teachers) and it is close to their house where I go to eat and have lessons. I mainly learn to sing but my voice teacher's husband is a great tabla player so I learn a lot about Indian music from him too.
Kolkata is a major Indian city and it is part of the region of Bengal where people speak bangla. People also speak bangla in the neighboring country of Bangladesh but for political reasons there is a separate country there now where it used to be one region with no border in the middle. I will ask more about that in the scavenger hunt. Let me explain, I will be having two research scavenger hunts for my older and younger students during the time I am gone and those students who answer the most questions will get prizes. If you are in elementary school then you are in the younger group, jr. high and high school students are older.
Why don't we begin now?
Older students: In what general region of India do they play Hindustani music and where do they play Carnatic music?
Younger students: What kind of instrument is the tabla? (percussion, string, wind, brass)
Take care,
Andrew
When I go to India I stay in Calcutta (or Kolkata as many local people write it). When I stay in Kolkata I live in an apartment that my teachers own and rent to their visiting students (like me). It is in a neighborhood called Tollygunge where many great musicians live (like my teachers) and it is close to their house where I go to eat and have lessons. I mainly learn to sing but my voice teacher's husband is a great tabla player so I learn a lot about Indian music from him too.
Kolkata is a major Indian city and it is part of the region of Bengal where people speak bangla. People also speak bangla in the neighboring country of Bangladesh but for political reasons there is a separate country there now where it used to be one region with no border in the middle. I will ask more about that in the scavenger hunt. Let me explain, I will be having two research scavenger hunts for my older and younger students during the time I am gone and those students who answer the most questions will get prizes. If you are in elementary school then you are in the younger group, jr. high and high school students are older.
Why don't we begin now?
Older students: In what general region of India do they play Hindustani music and where do they play Carnatic music?
Younger students: What kind of instrument is the tabla? (percussion, string, wind, brass)
Take care,
Andrew
