Kriti Class 8 Chapter 6, Musical Instruments, connects the physics of sound—timbre, vibration, resonance and frequency—with crafting simple instruments and profiling legendary Indian instrumentalists.
What Kriti Class 8 Chapter 6 Covers
The science of sound: sound comes from vibration. Resonance in a hollow body makes it louder. Frequency is vibrations per second: tightening a sitar’s tuning peg raises the frequency and the pitch. Timbre is the tone colour of a sound, which depends on the instrument’s material, construction and playing technique.
Instrument makers: the craftspeople who make and maintain instruments keep traditional music alive, and the chapter suggests inviting one to school for a live demonstration.
Musicians and their instruments: Annapurna Devi on the surbahar, a ‘bass sitar’ rarely played by women, whose students included Hariprasad Chaurasia and Nikhil Banerjee. Mysore Doraiswamy Iyengar (born 1920) on the veena, learnt from his father, a court musician at Mysore. Pannalal Ghosh (1911–1960), a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan, who made the bansuri a concert instrument in Hindustani music.
Activities: a word search of 12 instruments from the bansuri to the saxophone, mapping regional percussion such as the udukkai (Tamil Nadu), pung (Manipur), tumbaknaari (Jammu and Kashmir) and chenda (Kerala), and an instruments crossword.
Exercises in Chapter 6
- Circle Time discussion prompts and Assessment rubrics at the end of the chapter.
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FAQ
What is timbre in music?
The tone or colour of a sound, which varies with an instrument’s material, construction and playing technique.
Who made the bansuri a concert instrument?
Pannalal Ghosh (1911–1960), a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan.