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  2. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  3. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    While [z] is a foreign sound, it is also natively found as an allophone of /s/ beside voiced consonants. The other three Persian loans, /q, x, ɣ/, are still considered to fall under the domain of Urdu, and are also used by some Hindi speakers; however, other Hindi speakers may assimilate these sounds to /k, kʰ, g/ respectively.

  4. Invention (musical composition) - Wikipedia

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    In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) in two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. Some modern publishers call them "three-part inventions" to avoid confusion with symphonies.)

  5. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    The sound represented by ṛ has also been largely lost in the modern languages, and its pronunciation now ranges from [ɾɪ] (Hindi) to [ɾu] (Marathi). ḹ is not an actual phoneme of Sanskrit, but rather a graphic convention included among the vowels in order to maintain the symmetry of short–long pairs of letters.

  6. Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Sanskrit word "Rāma" (IPA:, राम) is pronounced "Rām" (IPA:, राम्) in Hindi. The schwa sound at the end of the word is deleted in Hindi. [4] However, in both cases, the word is written राम. The schwa is not deleted in ancient languages such as Sanskrit.

  7. Dhrupad - Wikipedia

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    Dhrupad is a genre in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent.It is the oldest known style of major vocal styles associated with Hindustani classical music (for example in the Haveli Sangeet of Pushtimarg Sampradaya [citation needed]), and is also related to the South Indian Carnatic tradition.

  8. Percussion notation - Wikipedia

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    Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments.As with other forms of musical notation, sounds are represented by symbols which are usually written onto a musical staff (or stave).

  9. Phonological history of Hindustani - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, the regional variant which did not undergo this change ended up supplanting the main-dialect form, at least in writing. Old Hindi tā̃ba > Hindustani tām "copper (in compounds)", with regional variant tā̃b; Old Hindi kũbhāra > Hindustani kumhār "potter", with regional variant kũbhār