Class 6 Arts (Kriti-I) Chapter 9, Melodies of Diversity, takes students on a musical tour across India’s regional folk, festive and devotional song traditions—with original lyrics, transliterations, meanings and QR audio links.
What Class 6 Art Chapter 9 Covers
Regional Folk & Boat Songs Across India teaches the Manipuri bird song Ha Urit Napangbi, Kerala’s Vanchipattu snake-boat song Kuttanadan Punjayile, Assam’s Ei Maatire Moro Mote, Gujarat’s sea-faring song Potana J Dariya Ma and festive Garba, plus Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi (O Jind Mahe Bajare) and Marathi (Kshatriya Kulavatsana) melodies.
Devotional & Sacred Musical Traditions explores India’s plural devotional pathways through Bhajan and Kirtan, Sikh Shabad, Christian church Hymns, and Sufi Qawwali/Kafi traditions.
Songs from across India: Vanchipattu, the boat song sung at Kerala’s snake-boat races, through ‘Kuttanadan Punchayile’; Garba from Gujarat, the music and dance of Navratri; the Gujarati song ‘Potana J Dariya Ma’; and a song celebrating Chitradurga Fort in Karnataka. Bhupen Hazarika, born in Sadiya, Assam in 1926 and known as Sudha Kontho, is introduced.
Sacred music: the chapter includes ‘The Faithful are One Soul’, a poem from the Masnavi of Jalal ud-Din Muhammad Balkhi (Rumi), about the one divinity within all of us, and ends by looking at the forms of Indian music: classical, regional, devotional and more.
Exercises in Chapter 9
- Studio Activities, step-by-step creative exercises, and peer/self-reflection prompts.
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More Chapters
- Previous: Chapter 8: Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music
- Next: Chapter 10: Songwriting
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FAQ
What is ‘Kuttanadan Punjayile’ in Chapter 9 of Kriti-I?
‘Kuttanadan Punjayile’ is a famous traditional Malayalam Vanchipattu (boat-race song) from Kerala, sung in an energetic rhythm to row snake boats in unison during Onam.
Why does Chapter 9 include songs in Manipuri, Malayalam, Assamese, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Marathi?
Singing in diverse Indian languages builds pronunciation skills, musical versatility and appreciation of India’s cultural unity in diversity.
What is Vanchipattu?
A boat song of Kerala sung during the traditional snake-boat races in the backwaters.