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Summary of Twin Melodies Class 9
Twin Melodies Summary Class 9
Characters:
- Shruti Sharma, a young musician who plays violin
- Nabin and Leela Sharma, parents of Shruti Sharma
- Avinash, Peter, Iabal-friends of Shruti
Setting:
Shruti Sharma, the protagonist, is practicing fusion music for a concert.
Symbols:
Western and Indian musical instruments, Fusion music
Theme:
The story revolves around the acceptability of fusion music.
Moral of the Lesson:
Every form of music should be appreciated.
Style:
Realism is the style followed.
About the Author
Mitra Phukan is an Indian author who writes in English. She is also a translator, columnist, and trained classical vocalist. She currently lives in Guwahati, Assam. She writes extensively on Indian music as a reviewer and essayist. Her works have been translated into many languages, and several of them are taught in colleges and Universities. As a translator herself, she has translated into English the works of some of the best-known Assamese writers of fiction. Her published literary works include four children’s books, a biography, three novels, “The Collector’s Wife”, “A Monsoon of Music” (Penguin-Zubaan), and “What Will People Say?” (Speaking Tiger), several volumes of translations of other novels, and a collection of fifty of her columns, “Guwahati Gaze”.
Theme of Twin Melodies
Generally, people practicing classical forms of music frown upon the new genres of music. This drama deals with a situation where a father frowns upon the use of classical instruments in modern music. Later, when reminded by his wife, he changes his mind and allows his daughter to use the violin in Indo-western fusion music.
Twin Melodies Summary in English
Act-I
A group of young musicians are practicing Indo-Western fusion music. They are Shruti Sharma, who plays the violin; Avinash, the tabla player; Iqbal, the flutist; and Peter, the keyboard player. They are practising for an upcoming concert. After the practice, they were packing up.
They praised Shruti Sharma for her good performance in the concert Parbatpuri Daily Clarion, along with her father Nabin Sharma. But Shruti was immersed in her thoughts. Shruti was doing this music practice without the permission of her father. Shruti’s father was against fusion music. He felt that the violin should not be used to play Western tunes. Shruti’s friends urged her to talk to her father. She agreed and decided to talk to him.
Act-II
Shruti had just finished her dinner along with her father. But she was lost in her thoughts. Shruti gathered courage and asked permission from her father to take part in a group concert of Indo-Western fusion music. Nabin Sharma was angry. He felt that Shruti has lost her ability to appreciate music.
Shruti, however, requested her father to attend her practice once. Her mother felt that Shruti must have asked prior permission of her father for practising fusion music.
Act-III
Shruti joined her friends again for practice, which she felt would be the last time. She felt she would join them for practice one last time and then tell her friends she could not attend the concert. In the middle of the performance, Shruti’s parents enter the room and start enjoying the performance. When the practice was completed, Nabin, Shruti’s father, congratulated them for the excellent performance. He told them that they could use his music room for their practice.
Shruti thanked her father for allowing her to practice fusion music. Shruti’s father told her it was Leela, her mother, who opened his eyes. And that she should thank her mother. Leela told Shruti that Nabin’s parents were vocalists and had felt bad when Nabin had started using the violin to play Indian classical music. But Nabin persisted and achieved success.
Finally, Nabin told her daughter he would come for the concert, to applaud her performance.
Twin Melodies Summary in Hindi
यह नाटक श्रुति शर्मा के इर्द-गिर्द घूमता है, जो एक प्रतिभाशाली युवा वायलिन वादक है और अपने दोस्तों के साथ मिलकर एक इंडो-वेस्टर्न फ्यूजन कॉन्सर्ट के लिए गुषचुप तरीके से अभ्यास करती है। उसके पिता, गुरु नबीन शर्मा, शास्त्रीय हिंदुस्तानी संगीत के कट्टर समर्थक हैं और फ्यूजन संगीत को बिल्कुल भी पसंद नहीं करते। अपने दोस्तों से हिम्मत पाकर, श्रुति अपने माता-पिता को कॉन्सर्ट के बारे में बताने की हिम्मत जुटाती है, लेकिन उसके पिता शुरू में इस विचार को सिरे से खारिज कर देते हैं और फ्यूजन संगीत की कड़ी आलोचना करते हैं।
निराश होकर, श्रुति को डर लगता है कि उसे शायद यह ग्रुप छोड़ना पड़ेगा। हालाँकि, बाद में उसके माता-पिता बिना उसे बताए उसके अभ्यास सत्र में पहुँच जाते हैं। उसे वायलिन बजाते हुए देखकर, नबीन उसकी कला से बहुत प्रभावित होते हैं और उन्हें यह एहसास होता है कि श्रुति ने शास्त्रीय संगीत के मूल स्वरूप के साथ कोई समझौता नहीं किया है। वह अपनी गलती स्वीकार करते हैं और श्रुति के फैसले का समर्थन करते हैं।
इस नाटक का अंत एक सकारात्मक मोड़ पर होता है, जो परिवार के भीतर आपसी समझ और तालमेल को उजागर करता है। यह नाटक हमें सिखाता है कि परंपरा और आधुनिक विचार एक साथ मिलकर चल सकते हैं, बशर्त परिवार में एक-दूसरे पर भरोसा हो, सोच खुली हो और हर कोई एक-दूसरे के जुनून और सपनों का सम्मान करता हो।
Twin Melodies Class 9 Word Meanings
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- Aspiring: to have a strong desire to do something
- Violinist: a person who plays the violin
- Crescendo: a piece of music which gets louder and louder
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- Flute: a musical instrument shaped like a pipe with holes
- Tabla: a pair of small hand drums
- Keyboard: small musical instrument like piano
- Distress: suffering great pain
- Rehearsal: practice something before you present it before others
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- Sensation: a matter of excitement
- Concert: a performance of music
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- Desecration: disrespecting something that is sacred
- Ragas and aalaaps: elements of Hindustani classical music
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- Spirit: your thoughts and feeling
- Abandon: to leave someone/somebody
- Mission: an important job to do
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- Contempt: treat with disrespect
- Orchestra: a group of musicians playing different instruments
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- Mocking: to make fun of
- phoo music: music that sounds like noise