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The Urdu ghazal can be sung with music in the Sufi Qawalli tradition, which is popular in South Asia. [31] They are also commonly sung outside of Sufi shrines called Dargah . Another way to recite ghazal is tarannum, which is a mix of heightened speaking and low-key singing, often described as chanting.
The 16-syllable hazaj meter is also among the three most commonly used meters in Urdu verse, [17] and it is one of the typical meters of the ghazal genre. The following example comes from a ghazal written by Ghalib in 1816. Like the Turkish version of the metre, it has no break in the middle of the half-line.
Song structure is the arrangement of a song, [1] and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs.Common piece-level musical forms for vocal music include bar form, 32-bar form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues.
Bait Bazi (Urdu: بیت بازی) is a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry played by composing verses of Urdu poems. The game is common among Urdu speakers in Pakistan and India . It is similar to Antakshari , the Sistanian Baas-o-Beyt , the Malayalam Aksharaslokam and, more generally, the British Crambo .
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
Learning the common tropes is key to understanding the ghazal. There are several locations a Urdu sher might take place in: [13] The Garden, where the poet often takes on the personage of the bulbul, a songbird. The poet is singing to the beloved, who is often embodied as a rose. hoon garmi-i-nishat-i-tasavvur se naghma sanj
A list of musicians at the court of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan included in Raga Darpan, a book written by Faqir Ullah, one-time governor of Kashmir, mention two khyal performers. [31] Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah was another great patron of music, poetry and painting, which he continued even after the invasion of India by Persian emperor Nadir ...
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