Class 9 English Beehive Chapter 2 The Sound of Music NCERT Solutions:
Question And Answers
Thinking about the text :
1. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
Q.1. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
Ans: Evelyn was seventeen when she went to the Royal Academy of Music.
Q.2. When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Ans: Her deafness was first noticed when she was eight year old. It was confirmed after she had been taken to a specialist. Then she was eleven.
II. Answer each of the questions in a short paragraph (30-40 words)
Q.1. Who helped her to continue with music. What did he do and say?
Ans: Ron Forbes, the percussionist helped her to continue with music. He began by tuning large drums to different notes. He asked her not to listen through her ears, but to try to sense it some other way. He repeated the exercise, till she could sense the difference in the sounds of the two drums. Thus Ron Forbes played a significant role in their music career of Evelyn
Q.2. Name the various places and causes for which Evelyn performs.
Ans: Evelyn made herself the most sought after musician in the world. She had international fame. She toured the United Kingdom with a youth Orchestra. She auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music and Royal philanthropic Society. Apart from her regular concerts, Evelyn gave free concerts in prisons and hospitals. She gave priority to classes for young musicians. As an international musician, she delighted millions of her audiences.
III. Answer the question in two or three paragraphs (100-150 words)
Q.1. How does Evelyn hear music?
Ans: Evelyn is deaf. So she does not hear music. In fact, she senses it and feels it with the different parts of her body. Ran Forbes spotted her potential and advised her to sense music, instead of hearing. When Forbes repeated beating two drums of different Tunes, Evelyn sensed the higher drom from the waist up and the lower from the waist down. She had learned to open her mind and body to different sounds and vibrations. The sound of music peared through every part of her body. It tingles in her skin, cheekbones, and in her hair. Leaning against the drums she could feel its resonance. Playing xylophone she could feel to sensation on her fingertips. Sanding bare feet on a wooden platform she could feel the vibrations passing up her legs.
Additional Questions and Answers
Q.1. Choose the correct answer from the alternative given below: she felt the vibration of the appoaching…
(i) storm (ii) train (iii) earthquake
Ans: (a) train
(b) Evelyn was a teenager fresh from a …
(i) scotish farm (ii) London school (iii) Irish farm
Ans: (b) Scotish farm
(c) Evelyn’s loss of hearing has been …..
(i) Sudden (ii) quick (iii) gradual
Ans: (c) gradual
(d)Isabel Glenie was Evelyn’s….
(i) teacher (ii) mother (iii) nurse
Ans: (ii)Mother
(e)Ron Forbess was a ….
(i) singer (ii) percussionist (iii) dancer
Ans: (ii)percussionist
(f)Evelyn confesses that she is something of a…..
(i) workaholic (ii) musician (iii) singer
Ans: (i) workaholic
(g)….people who look to Evelyn and say….
(i) What she cannot do, I can (ii) What I can not do, she can. (iii) If she can do it, I can.
Ans: (iii) If she can do it, I can.
(i) Evelyn is as shinning inspiration for
(i) blind children (ii) dumb children (iii) deaf children
Ans: (i) deaf children.
Q.2. Choose the meaning of the underlined words from the alter- native given below:
(a)… crowds jostle for position. (push/roughly/lie down/hit each other)
Ans: push roughly
(b) I suddenly realised….(felt/understood/comprehend)
Ans: understood
(c) Evelyn managed to conceal her growing deafness. (hide/show/ feel)
Ans: hide
(d) She was dertermined to lead a normal life… (promised/decided/ fixed)
Ans: decided
(e) …..her marks have deteriorated and human.. (become worse/be- come better/become lesser)
Ans: become worse
(f)…… her hearing was severely impaired. (weakened/damaged/lost)
Ans: damaged
(g)She speaks flawlessly…… (with mistake/without mistake/ speedily)
Ans: wighout mistake
(h)…she can feel the resistance…. (échos of sound/ vibrations/echoes)
Ans: echos of sound
(g) She speaks flawlessly …(with mistake/without mistake/speedily)
Ans: without mistake
(h) Evelyn functions so effortlessly. (normally/easily/painfully)
Ans: easily.
Q.3. Why do Rush hour crowd jostle and where?
Ans: The Rush hour crowd jostle for position in the underground train platform.
Q.3. (a) What is the name of Evelyn’s mother?
Ans: The name of Evelyn’s mother is Isabel Glennie.
Q.3.(b) How does Evelyn hear music?
Ans: Evelyn was deaf. But she felt notes of music through the different parts of her body.
Q.3.(c) What does Evelyn confess about herself?
Ans: Evelyn confessed that she was somewhat of a workaholic.
Q.4. Where did the Crowd jostle and why?
Ans: The crowd jostled on the underground train platform. They jostled for position.
Q.5. Where is the Royal Academy of Music?
Ans: The Royal Academy of Music is in London,
Q.6. Where does Evelyn Glennil hail from?
Ans: Evelyn Glennil hails from a scottish farm.
Q.7. “But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge”. Who is the aspiring musician referred to here and what bigger challenge does she face?
Ans: Evelyn Glennie is an aspiring musician, The bigger challenge faced by her is that she was profoundly deaf.
Q.8. What is the name of Evelyn’s mother?
Ans: Evelyn’s mother’s name is Isabel Glennie.
Q.9. When did the mother notice Evelyn’s deafness?
Ans: The mother noticed Evelyn’s deafness when the latter was only eight. The mother called Evelyn’s name but she did not move. Then she realised that she had not heard,
Q.10. When and why did Evelyn’s headmistress urge her parents to take her to a specialist?
Ans: By the time Evelyn was eleven her marks deteriorated. Then the headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.
Q.11. What caused Evelyn’s deafness?
Ans: Evelyn’s deafness occurred as a result of gradual nerve damage.
Q.12. What was advised to Evelyn’s parents?
Ans: Evelyn’s parents were advised to provide her with a hearing aid and send her to a school for the deaf,
Q.13. Who spotted the potential in Evelyn?
Ans: Ron Forbes, the percussionist spotted Evelyn’s potential.
Q.14. How did Evelyn feel the drums played by Ron Forbes?
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How did Evelyn feel about the higher drum and the lower drum?
Ans: Evelyn felt the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down.
Q.15. What did Evelyn discover when Forbes repeated the exercise?
Ans: When Forbes repeated the exercise Evelyn could sense certain notes in different parts of her body. As told she had learned to open her mind and body to the sounds and vibrations.
Q.16. Who is Ron Forbes? What exercise did he repeat to Evelyn?
Ans: Ron Forbes is a percussionist. He repeated the exercise of playing the two drums of different tunes.
Q.17. What is a percussionist?
Ans: Percussionist is a musician who plays drums or tablas.
Q.18. When did Evelyn tour the United Kingdom and with whom?
Ans: Evelyn toured the United Kingdom when she was sixteen. She toured with a youth orchestra.
Q.19. Till when Evelyn could hear? How was her voice? or, What does Evelyn say about her voice and why?
Ans: Evelyn’s voice was clear. She could hear till she was eleven.
Q.20. “As for music, she explains…What does Evelyn explain on music?
Ans: Evelyn explains that music pours through every part of her body. It tingles in her skin, cheekbones, and even in her hair.
Q.21. What does master percussionist James Blades say about Evelyn?
Ans: Master Percussionist, James Blades remarked that God might have taken her hearing but he had given her something extraordinary. What others heard, she felt deeply and that was why she could express music so beautifully.
Q.22. Why does Evelyn call herself a workaholic?
Ans: Evelyn calls herself a workaholic because often she had to work harden than classical musicians,
Q.23. What does Ann Richlin of the Beethoven Fun for Deaf Children say about Evelyn?
Ans: Ann Richlin says that Evelyn is a shining inspiration for deaf children. He sees that there is nowhere that they could not go.
Q.24. Give an account of Evelyn’s journey from an eight year old deaf girl to a world class percussionist. Or, How did Ron Forbes play a significant role in the music career of Evelyn?
Ans: Evelen’s physical disability could not stop her determination to shine in life. Rather she took her deafness as a challenge. As an eight year deaf girl, she was discouraged even by her teachers. The than who really made her world famous was the percussionist Ron Forbes. It was Forbes who first spotted her talent, and taught her the lessons by way of giving repeated exercises which strongly she learnt with her body. She toured several countries, gave recital and won the heart of her audience.
In the United Kingdom she toured with a youth orchestra: auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music; held so to performances in several cities in the world. In 1991 the Royal Philharmonic Societys awarded her with the pertigious Soloist of the year Award. Thus Evelyn rose to the zenith of her carreer as an accomplished soloist.
Q.25. What does people who look to Evelyn say about her?
Ans: People who look to Evelyn say that they too could do what she had done.
Q.26. “Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual”. Why does the writer say so?
Ans: Evelyn Glennie’s deafness was first noticed by her mother. Evelyn was eight years old and waiting to play the piano. Her mother noticed that something was wrong with her. They called her name but she did not move. At once the mother realised that she did not hear. For sometime Evelyn tried to conceal her deafness from her friends and teachers.
But by the time she was eleven her marks deteriorated. The headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist. Then only it was discovered that her hearing was severly impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage.
Q.27. “Everything suddenly looked black.” Who says this and why does she say so?
Ans: Evelyn Glennie says this. When Evelyn was eleven the specialist discovered that her hearing was severely impaired. Her parents were advised to provide her with hearing aid and send her to a school for the deaf. At that Evelyn made the above quated remark.