Ghazal Music of Pakistan
In the literary, the ghazal is a poetic type that is made up of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. Each of the line shares the sa...
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In
the literary, the ghazal is a poetic type that is made up of couplets which
share a rhyme and a refrain. Each of the line shares the same rhythm.
Etymological, the term literally means the mortal cry of a gazelle. The animal
is known as Ghizaal, from which the English word gazelles came out or Kastori
haran (where haran means deer) in Urdu. Ghazals are traditional expressions of
love, loneliness and separation, for which the gazelle is a suitable picture. A
ghazal can thus be understood as a poetic expression of both separation ort
loss of the lover and the beauty of love despite the pain. This form is old,
initiating in the 10th century Persian verse. It is originated from
the Persian qasida. The structural requirements of the ghazal are more severe
than those of poetic types of traditionally written in English. In its pattern
and substance, it is a genre that is capable of an extraordinary type of
expression around its central theme of love and separation. This is considered
as one of the principal poetic types the Persian civilization offered to the
eastern Islamic world.
source of picture: tribune.com.pk
The
ghazal is sung by both men and women, as an expression of love and beauty.
The
ghazal moved into South Asia in the 12th century under the influence
of the modern Islamic Sultanate courts and Sufi mystics. Exotic to the area, as
it is shown by the very sounds of the name itself when correctly pronounced as
gazal. Though the ghazal is very important as a type of Urdu poetry, today, it
has influenced the poetry of many dialects. Many of the ghazal singers are
trained in classical music and sing in either Thumri or Khyal.
Some
of the prominent composers and artists in Pakistan include Atif Lohar, Atif
Aslam, Abida Parveen, Ahmed rusdi Tufail Niazi, Abrar ul Haq, Ali Azmat, Alam
Lohar, Amanant Ali Khan, Ali Azmat, Amjad Bobby, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Farida
Khanum, Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Malika Pukhraj, M Ashraf, Igbal Bano, Khawaja
Khurshid Anwar, Malika Pukhraji, Munni Begum, Master Abdullah, Naheed Akhtar,
Nayyara Noor, Najam Sheraz, Noor Jehan, Rasheed Attre, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan,
Roshan Ara Begum, Sajjad Ali, Sabri Brothers, Tahira Syed, Usman Warsi, Tina
Sani, Ustad Badar uz Zaman and Waqar Ali.
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