music

• Ghazal


  Traditional expression of love, separation, and loneliness. It tells about both the pain of loss of the lover and the beauty of love in spite of that pain
• Ghazal


  • Its structural requirements are more strict than those of most poetic forms traditionally written in English
  • Can be sung by both men and women
  • Considered by many to be one of the principal poetic forms in the Persian civilization
• Qawwali


  Devotional music of the Chishti Order
• Chishti Order


  • Sufi order or school within the mystic tradition of Islam
  • Its focus is on the emphasis on Love, tolerance, and openness
  • Vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years
  • Originally performed mainly at Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent
• Rig veda - chant nearly 5000 years
• Richas - melody in the text
• Vedas - knowledge
• God and holy cow

  holy cow - holiness
• Microtones - how india music is distinguish
• Melismatic - singing one word with many notes
• Melismatic - continuous and nasal singing
• South india

  carnatic music - sacred and same/constant
• Raga - melody
• Northern India

  Hindustani music - older than carnatic music (1000 bce)
• Hindustani is influenced by hinduism and vedic texts
• Khyla - imagination
• Seven scale

  sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni, sa
• Gamakas

  gives a certain characteristic in indian music
• Gamakas is a connector between two different notes
• Vedic sanserit - 1500 and 500 bce
• Sliding gamaka

  sliding one note to another
• Jaaru - means slide
• Wavy gamaka - creating multiple waves or back and forth of notes to create a more distant sound
• Janta swaras - double notes
• Double notes

  giving an accent or emphasis to the repeated note or sounds
• Vibration gamaka - spuritan

  quick vibration on one note
• Tremolo - quick back and forth vibration using one or many notes
• Ghatam

  ghan, avanaddh, sushir, tat, vitat
• Ghan - striking, tapping the body of the instrument
• Ghan - described as a non-membranous percussive instrument but with solid resonators
• Tal - beat
• ghan

  • ghatam, kartal, Manjira
• Ghatam - clay pot / vase
• Kartal - This product made from wood and brass rings it can use by any age person and this product is mostly use in bhajan, jagrata and other indian musical function.
• Manjira - ching cymballs
• Avanaddh - membranophone
• avanaddh - drums
• Tabla - carnatic and secular songs

  big = lower sound

  little = higher pitch
• Sushir - “blown air” aerophones of india
• Sushir

  • shankh, bansuri, surpeti, shehnai