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The country’s traditional music reflects this diversity, with each ethnic group contributing unique styles and forms. At the same time, Pakistan's music scene has also seen the development of musical forms born from the fusion of various influences, such as Qawwali and Ghazal, which blend traditional, regional, and Sufi elements.
Thus the kafi is a devotional form of music composed in a particular form derived from a mixture of classical, semi-classical, and light music forms (specifically, the khayal, tappa, thumri, and geet). The mystic poetry of the Sufi saints is usually sung in this mode. There is a Punjabi variant of kafi singing.
Pakistani popular music or shortly Pak-pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz, rock and roll, hip hop and disco sung in various languages of Pakistan, including Urdu. The popularity of music is based on the individual sales of a ...
Pakistani styles of music ... Pakistani music history (2 C, 2 P) Pashtun music (2 C, 3 P) Q. ... Pages in category "Music of Pakistan"
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The adoption of the takhallus became a gradually accepted part of the ghazal form, and by the time of Saadi Shirazi (1210–1291 AD), the most important ghazal poet of this period, it had become de rigueur. [4] The second marked change from Arabian ghazal form in Persian ghazals was a movement towards far greater autonomy between the couplets.
Sufi poetry and literature based on Islamic principles gave rise to forms of Sufi music that are still prominent throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan and north India. . Historically, some types of Sufi music were based on the practice of 'sama', which views the recitation of music as a form of spiritual ecstasy and a pathway to being closer t
A sitar workshop in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistani music ranges from diverse forms of provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal to modern musical forms that fuse traditional and western music. [20]