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  2. Mandakranta metre - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of this line is that the metre has a pause after four syllables (jaladhi = ocean, traditionally four in number), then after six (ṣaḍ = six), and can be described using the gaṇa s [7] (trisyllabic metrical patterns) ma bha na ta ta followed by two long (or heavy) syllables, known as guru, that is:

  3. Avagraha - Wikipedia

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    In the case of Hindi, the character is also sometimes used as a symbol to denote long or heavy syllables, in metrical poetry. For example, the syllables in the word छंदः chandaḥ ‘metre’ (in nominative ) can be denoted as " ऽऽ ", meaning two long syllables.

  4. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    A variety of systems exist throughout the world for organising and playing metrical music, such as the Indian system of tala and similar systems in Arabic and African music. Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] where it denotes the number of lines in a verse , the number of syllables in each line, and the ...

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    A metrical foot (aka poetic foot) is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry.. In some metres (such as the iambic trimeter) the lines are divided into double feet, called metra (singular: metron).

  6. Indian classical music - Wikipedia

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    Indian music is composed and performed in a metrical framework, a structure of beats that is a tala. A tala measures musical time in Indian music. However, it does not imply a regular repeating accent pattern, instead its hierarchical arrangement depends on how the musical piece is supposed to be performed. [80]

  7. Danda - Wikipedia

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    In metrical texts, a double daṇḍa is used to delimit verses, and a single daṇḍa to delimit a pada, line, or semi-verse. In prose, the double daṇḍa is used to mark the end of a paragraph, a story, or section.

  8. Tala (music) - Wikipedia

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    Indian music is composed and performed in a metrical framework, a structure of beats that is a tala. The tala forms the metrical structure that repeats, in a cyclical harmony, from the start to end of any particular song or dance segment, making it conceptually analogous to meters in Western music. [5]

  9. Khyal - Wikipedia

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    Khyal bandishes are typically composed in a variant of Hindi-Urdu or occasionally the Dari variant of the Persian language, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, or Marathi. These compositions cover diverse topics, such as romantic or divine love, praise of kings or gods, the seasons, dawn and dusk, and the pranks of Krishna, and they can have symbolism and ...