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The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi'a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.
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It was composed and arranged by Khalid Rajab Bey, a Turkish professor at the School of Industry and Music who taught music in Kabul during the reign of Amanullah Khan. It was played on state visits abroad by Amanullah. [1] Although it is difficult to say whether it has become a national anthem in the modern sense.
[3] [4] [5] The music was composed by Jalīl Ghahlānd and was arranged by Ustad Salim Sarmad. [6] [7] It is known alternatively by the title of "Garam shah lā garam shah" (English: "Be ardent, be more ardent"), which is also the song's incipit. Like many national anthems, it was sometimes sung abbreviated, with only the chorus and the first ...
Farhad Darya (Pashto/Dari: فرهاد دریا; born 22 September 1962) is an Afghan singer, composer, music producer, and philanthropist.Active since the 1980s, Darya has been one of the most renowned [2] and influential Afghan pop musicians of the modern era, contributing to establishing new wave in Afghanistan [3] and blending urban and rural styles.
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Fortress of Islam, Heart of Asia" [a] is an Afghan mujahideen battle song composed in 1919 by Ustad Qasim. It was adopted as the national anthem of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2006.
The song was written by Harry Donnelly and William A. Wilander. It tells a story about Afghanistan of an Afghan Hindu woman and a man seeking to marry her, evoking imagery of elephants, temples, and the Afghan landscape. [5] [6] [7] The cover art was drawn by noted sheet music cover artists the Starmers.