NCERT Solutions Kaveri Chapter 6 A Friend Found in Music — Learning Beyond the Text

Did you know, India’s rich musical heritage has a lot to offer to our well-being? Raga Chikitsa, one of the ancient texts, elaborates on the healing properties of music. A seventeenth century work titled Sangita Sudha gives an account of the effects of music on emotions. Find out how music is used as an alternative therapy in the present times.

Everything in nature has a rhythm or sound vibration, even our heartbeat. Speak to your music teacher and find out about the origin of the seven swaras (notes) of Indian classical music.

You must have read or heard poems and songs about music—both in English and in your own language. Share some of them with your classmates and create a collection of these poems and songs together.

Read and enjoy the poem given below. *Note: Naiad—a water nymph said to inhabit a river, spring, or waterfall.