English · Chapter 42
Study notes aligned to the official NEB syllabus.
Music and Creation is one of the Language Development units of the NEB Grade 12 Compulsory English textbook (2076 curriculum). Like every unit in this part of the book, it is organised around a theme rather than a literary genre. Here the theme is music: where it comes from, why every human society produces it, and what it does for the people who make and listen to it. The unit opens with a reading text on music as a human creation and its place in life, follows it with comprehension and vocabulary exercises, then moves to a grammar focus, a listening or speaking activity built on musical experience, and a writing task on the same theme. The aim is to let students discuss an idea they already care about in careful, accurate English.
The reading in this unit treats music as one of the oldest and most universal forms of human creation. Its central claim is that music is not a decoration added to life but a basic human activity. Every known culture sings, drums, chants or plays instruments, and children respond to rhythm long before they can speak. The text therefore presents music as something that belongs to the whole species, not to a few gifted individuals.
Several main ideas can be drawn out for exam purposes. First, music is an act of creation. A composer or a folk singer takes ordinary materials, the human voice, a stretched string, a hollow drum, and shapes them into a pattern of sound that did not exist before. This links music to other creative acts such as painting, poetry and invention, and it explains why the unit joins the two words in its title.
Second, the text stresses the social work that music does. Music gathers people at festivals, weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies and political rallies. Nepali students can think of the panche baja at a wedding, dohori sung across a hillside, the Deusi Bhailo songs of Tihar, or the bhajans of a temple. Shared music builds belonging and passes tradition from one generation to the next without any written record.