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Tansen Extra Questions and Answers English Supplementary Chapter 5
Tansen Extra Questions and Answers Very Short Type
Question 1.
Who was the greatest musician of our country?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 2.
Who was Mukandan Misra?
Answer:
A singer and the father of Tansen.
Question 3.
Where did Mukandan Misra and his family live?
Answer:
In Behat near Gwalior.
Question 4.
Who was Mukandan Misra and his wife only child?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 5.
What did Tansen learn to imitate perfectly?
Answer:
The calls of birds and animals in the forest.
Question 6.
What kind of child Tansen was?
Answer:
He was a naughty child, but also talented one.
Question 7.
Who was travelling through the forest with his disciples?
Answer:
A famous singer, Swami Haridas.
Question 8.
Who was Swami Haridas?
Answer:
He was a famous singer, where Tansen lived with him for eleven years and learnt music.
Question 9.
Where was Swami Haridas travelling?
Answer:
He was travelling through the forest with his disciples.
Question 10.
“Strangers in the forest!” – Who said this and when?
Answer:
Tansen said this to himself when Swami Haridas and his group settled down to rest in a shady grave in the forest.
Question 11.
What did Tansen do when he saw Swami Haridas and his group?
Answer:
He frightened them by hiding behind a tree and roared like a tiger.
Question 12.
Who roared like a tiger?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 13.
Did Swami Haridas punish Tansen for his mischief?
Answer:
No.
Question 14.
Why did Swami Haridas visit Tansen’s father?
Answer:
Because he wanted to make Tansen a good singer.
Question 15.
How old was Tansen when he left for learning music?
Answer:
Ten years old.
Question 16.
Where did Tansen go at the age of ten?
Answer:
He went with Swami Haridas to learn music from him.
Question 17.
For how many years Tansen lived with Swami Haridas?
Answer:
For eleven years.
Question 18.
Who taught him learn music?
Answer:
Swami Haridas.
Question 19.
What was Mukandan Misra’s dying wish?
Answer:
That Tansen should visit Mohammad Ghaus of Gwalior?
Question 20.
Who was Mohammad Ghaus?
Answer:
He was a holy man of Gwalior.
Question 21.
With whom did Tansen lived in Gwalior?
Answer:
With Mohammad Ghaus.
Question 22.
While living with Mohammad Ghaus, where was he often taken to?
Answer:
To the court of Rani Mrignaini.
Question 23.
Who was Rani Mrignaini?
Answer:
A great musician where Tansen often visited to her court.
Question 24.
Whom did Tansen marry?
Answer:
Hussaini.
Question 25.
Who was Hussaini?
Answer:
The wife of Tansen.
Question 26.
What did Hussaini become?
Answer:
She become the disciple of Swami Haridas.
Question 27.
How many children did Tansen and Hussaini had?
Answer:
Five children.
Question 28.
Who had five children?
Answer:
Tansen and Hussaini.
Question 29.
Who insisted Tansen to join his court?
Answer:
Emperor Akbar.
Question 30.
In which year Tansen go to Akbar’s court?
Answer:
2nd 1556.
Question 31.
Where did Tansen go in 1556?
Answer:
To Akbar’s court.
Question 32.
Who became a favourite of the Emperor Akbar?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 33.
Why would Akbar call upon Tansen at anytime?
Answer:
He would call upon Tansen at any time to sing during the day or night.
Question 34.
Who was jealous of Tansen?
Answer:
Some of Courtiers.
Question 35.
Who was Shaukat Mian?
Answer:
The courtier of Akbar’s palace and was jealous of Tansen.
Question 36.
What was the Idea of Shaukat Mian to ruin Tansen?
Answer:
To make Tansen sing Raga Deepak.
Question 37.
Why is singing Raga Deepak dangerous?
Answer:
Because if anyone sings Raga Deepak properly, it makes the air so hot that the singer too burnt into ashes.
Question 38.
What would happen if Tansen sings Raga Deepak?
Answer:
He would burnt into ashes and die.
Question 39.
Whom did Shaukat Mian want Raga Deepak to sing?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 40.
Let us test him:
(i) Who said this and to whom?
Answer:
Shaukat Mian said to Akbar.
(ii) What was the test about?
Answer:
To make Tansen Sing Raga Deepak.
Question 41.
What was Tansen’s reply to sing Raga Deepak?
Answer:
Though he was afraid, took some time to prepare himself from Akbar.
Question 42.
Why was Tansen unhappy?
Answer:
Because Akbar told him to sing Raga Deepak, which was dangerous to death?
Question 43.
What was the idea of Tansen to sing Raga Deepak?
Answer:
The idea was if someone would sing Raga Megh at the sometime properly, then it would bring rain.
Question 44.
What was the name of Tansen’s daughter?
Answer:
Saraswati.
Question 45.
Who was Saraswati?
Answer:
Daughter of Tansen.
Question 46.
Who was Rupvati?
Answer:
Friend of Saraswati.
Question 47.
Whom did Tansen decide to sing Raga Megh?
Answer:
Saraswati and his friend Rupvati.
Question 48.
What did Tansen tech Saraswati and Rupvati?
Answer:
To sing Raga Megh.
Question 49.
For how many days they practised for Raga Megh?
Answer:
For two weeks.
Question 50.
What happened when Tansen began to sing Raga Deepak?
Answer:
The air become warm, leaves dried up, birds fell dead due to heat and the river water began to boil.
Question 51.
When did Saraswati and Rupvati start to sing?
Answer:
When the lamps began to burn everywhere, they started singing.
Question 52.
What happened when the girls sang Raga Megh?
Answer:
The sky clouded over and the rain began to come down.
Question 53.
Who punished Tansen’s enemies?
Answer:
The king, Akbar.
Question 54.
What happened to Tansen’s enemies to the end?
Answer:
They were punished by the king.
Question 55.
For how long Tansen remained Akbar’s court singer?
Answer:
Until his death in 1585.
Question 56.
When did Tansen die?
Answer:
In 1585.
Question 57.
Who died in 1585?
Answer:
Tansen.
Question 58.
Where is Tansen’s tomb?
Answer:
Gwalior.
Question 59.
Which place is pilgrimage for musician?
Answer:
Gwalior.
Question 60.
Why Gwalior is a place of pilgrimage for musicians?
Answer:
Because it has Tansen’s tomb who is a great musician in Gwalior.
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Tansen Extra Questions and Answers Short Type (02 Marks)
Question 1.
Where did Mukandan Misra live and who was their only child?
Answer:
Mukandan Misra and his wife lived in Behat near Gwalior. Their only child was Tansen, who was naughty, but also at the same time talented too.
Question 2.
What happened when Tansen frightened Swami Haridas and his group?
Answer:
Tansen was expert in imitating the calls of birds and animals. So he scared them by roaring like a tiger and the group of travellers were scattered in fear but swami Haridas took it lightly and said tiger were not always dangerous latter one disciple found out hiding behind a tree and thus, he was caught.
Question 3.
Where did Tansen learn music?
Answer:
When Tansen was ten years old , he went away with Swami Haridas and stayed with him for eleven years to learn music from him later he become a famous from in Gwalior.
Question 4.
What did Tansen’s enemies planed and why?
Answer:
One of his enemies named Shaukat Mian gave an idea to make Tansen sing Raga Deepak, because this song is very dangerous to sing if anyone does it properly, the air becomes so hot that the singer too burns into ashes. Thus, Tansen was a good singer and if he sings properly, he would burn and die.
Question 5.
What happened when Tansen began to sing Raga Deepak?
Answer:
The whole town assembled to hear Tansen singing and when he started to sing, the air become warm. The leaves on the tree dried up and the birds fell dead because of the heatness, also the water in the river boiled up too. The audience were all heated up and the lamps started burning.
Question 6.
What idea struck to Tansen to save from Raga Deepak?
Answer:
The idea was to make someone sing Raga Megh at the same time because if it was sang properly, the rain would come down. So he appointed his daughter Saraswati and her friend Rupvati and taught day and night. For two weeks. He told them to wait till the lamps began to burn and then they should start singing Raga Megh.
Tansen Extra Questions and Answers Short Type (03 Marks)
Question 1.
Describe how Akbar was pleased with Tansen?
Answer:
Akbar was impressed by Tansen and insisted him to join his court. However, Tansen went to Akbar’s court in 1556 and Akbar would call Tansen at any time to sing in his court during the day or night. Further Akbar would just walk into Tansen’s house just to listen him singing and practicing. He also gifted Tansen many thing. Tansen remained in Akbar’s court as a singer until his death in 1585.
Question 2.
How Tansen was saved?
Answer:
Tansen was said to sing Raga Deepak in Akbar’s court, which was a very dangerous song to sing and therefore it would cause death whoever sings it. When he began to sing Raga Deepak, the air become warm and the leaves all dried up. The birds fell dead due to heat and the water in the rivers were boiled up. However, he made his daughter Saraswati and her friend Rupvati sing a song named Raga Megh and soon the sky clouded all over and it began raining everywhere. Thus, Tansen was saved from burning into ashes.
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