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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Evelyn Glennie Listens To Sound Without Hearing It
TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences each.
Question 1.How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?
Answer:Evelyn was not even seventeen when she went to the Royal Academy of Music.
Question 2.When was her deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
Answer:Her deafness was noticed when she was eight-year-old. It was confirmed by the time she was eleven.
II. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (30-40 words).
Question 1.Who helped her to continue with music? What did he do and say?
Answer:Ron Forbes helped her to continue with music. He spotted her potential and said, “Don’t listen through your ears, try to sense it some other way.” He began by tuning two large drums to different notes.
Question 2.Name the various places and causes for which Evelvn nerforms.
Answer:Evelyn performed free concerts in prisons and hospitals. She made music her life and performed many regular concerts.
III. Answer the question in two or three paragraphs (100-150 words).
Question 1.How does Evelyn hear music?
Answer:Evelyn became deaf by the time she was eleven. But she did not give up. She was determined to lead a normal life and pursue her interest in music. Ron Forbes, a percussionist spotted her potential. He asked her not to listen through ears but try to sense it some other way. She realized she could feel the higher drum from the waist up and the lower one from the waist down. Forbes repeated the exercise and soon Evelyn discovered that she could sense certain notes in different parts of her body. She learnt to open her body and mind to sounds and vibrations. She herself explained, “It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the skin, my cheekbones and even in my hair.” When she played on the xylophone, she could sense the sound passing up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against the drums, she could feel the resonances flowing into her body. On the wooden floor she used to remove her shoes so that the vibrations may pass through her bare feet and up her legs.
The sound of music class 9 questions and answers
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Very Short Answer Questions
1. What was wrong with Evelyn Glennie?
Answer: She was profoundly deaf.
2. When was her deafness first noticed?
Answer: Her deafness was first noticed at the age of eight.
3. At what age did Evelyn go to the Royal Academy of music in London?
Answer: She went there at the age of seventeen.
4. What was Evelyn’s special field of interest?
Answer: She was interested in music.
5. At what age was Evelyn’s deafness confirmed?
Answer: Her deafness was confirmed at the age of eleven.
6. Who was Ron Forbes?
Answer: He was the music instructor in Evelyn’s school.
7. At what age did Evelyn visit the United Kingdom with a youth orchestra?
Answer: At the age of sixteen years.
8. What was her performance in the audition for the Royal Academy of music?
Answer: She scored the highest marks in the history of the academy.
9. What award did Evelyn win in 1991?
Answer: In 1991 she was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Prestigious Soloist of the Year Award.
10. How did Ron Forbes ask Evelyn to hear music?
Answer: Ile asked Evelyn to hear music not through her cars but other parts of her body.
11. Who did Evelyn give a big inspiration too?
Answer: She gave a big inspiration to the handicapped people.
Short Answer Type Questions
1. Which train was Evelyn waiting for on the underground train platform? How did she feel when she sensed the train approaching?
Answer: On the underground train platform, Evelyn was waiting for a train to London where she was to join the prestigious Royal Academy for Music. As she sensed the train approaching, she felt both nervous and excited.
2. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music? Why was she nervous on her way to the academy?
Answer: Evelyn was only seventeen years of age when she went to the Royal Academy of Music, London. Her nervousness was the result of her young age and lack of exposure. Coming from a farmland in Scotland, she had not experienced much of the world. In addition, going to a big institute like The Royal Academy of Music with her hearing disability made her uneasy.
3. While leaving for the Royal Academy of Music, why was Evelyn excited despite her nervousness?
Answer: For Evelyn, going to the Royal Academy of Music, London was a dream come true. She was going to join a three-year course in an institute she had cherished to join. It excited her to think that despite her impaired hearing she had made her way to such a prestigious institute.
4. When was Evelyn’s deafness first noticed? When was it confirmed?
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How did Evelyn’s parents come to discover her deafness?
Answer: Evelyn’s deafness was first noticed when she was eight years old. In fact, her mother had noticed it when Evelyn had not responded to a call for a performance on the piano. Her deafness was confirmed at the age of eleven when her poor academic performance forced her parents to consult a specialist, who discovered that her hearing was badly impaired because of gradual nerve damage.
5. Why had Evelyn’s headmistress advised her parents to take her to a specialist?
Answer: Evelyn managed to hide her growing deafness from students and teachers for some time. However, by the time she was eleven years old, her performance in school deteriorated and her marks decreased. It was then that the headmistress advised her parents to consult a specialist.
6. What advice were the parents of Evelyn given once her deafness was confirmed?
Answer: When the deafness of Evelyn was confirmed by a specialist, Evelyn’s parents were advised to get hearing aids for their daughter. They were also advised to send her to a special school where only deaf children were taught.
7. “Everything suddenly looked black”. Why does Evelyn say so?
Answer: When Evelyn was advised to use hearing aids and join the school for the deaf, she felt that her future was bleak and dark. She was depressed, as all hope for great achievements seemed to have vanished. She had now become a disabled child who could not have easy access to normal life.
8. How did Evelyn Glennie respond to the discovery of her deafness?
Answer: On learning about her deafness due to gradual nerve damage, Evelyn Glennie, instead of giving up, decided to lead a normal life like other children, and pursue her dream of learning music.
9. How did Evelyn’s teachers respond when she expressed her desire to play the xylophone?
Answer: Evelyn always loved music and despite her deafness, she expressed a desire to play the xylophone when she saw another girl playing it. But her teachers felt that she would not be able to play it because of her impaired hearing and they discouraged her.
10. Who wiped Evelyn to continue with music? What did he do and say?
Answer: It was Ron Forbes, the percussionist, who encouraged and helped. Evelyn to continue with music. While her teachers discouraged her, he noticed her potential and decided to develop it. He told Evelyn to train different parts of her body to sense musical notes. He turned two drums with different notes to make her sense the higher ones through the upper part of her body and the lower ones through down her waist.
11. How did Evelyn open her mind and body to musical sounds and vibrations?
Answer: As the guide I by Ron Forbes, Evelyn learnt to listen through different parts of the body other than her ears. Her mind and body were sensitized to notice and differentiate various sounds and vibrations of music. She compensated for the loss of hearing with this awakened and sharpened sense in other parts of her body.
12. Why does Evelyn say that men with bushy beards give her trouble?
Answer: Evelyn says that men with bushy beards give her trouble because she has to watch their whole face, especially their eyes in order to grasp what they say just watching their lips did not help as the lips remained partially hidden in the beards.
13. Which qualities of character enabled Evelyn to move ahead in life?
Answer: Unfaltering determination and hard work enabled Evelyn to move ahead in life without looking back. Instead of yielding before her handicap, she decided to overcome it and lead the life of a normal person. Being a workaholic, she put in her earnest efforts and kept advancing further and further.
14. How did Evelyn get admission to the Royal Academy of Music, London?
Answer: Evelyn gave audition for admission to Royal Academy of Music, London. Her score in the audition was one of the highest in the history of the academy. Therefore, she got selected for a three-year course.
15. What were Evelyn’s achievements after she joined the Royal Academy of Music, London?
Answer: At the Royal Academy of Music, London, Evelyn began as one of the performers in an orchestra. But gradually she moved on to give solo performances. At the end of her three-year course, she had bagged the biggest awards in the Academy.
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