Light classical genre. The lyrics are often set to themes of love. Vilambit. Slow tempo rhythm.
An important form of 'light-classical' vocal music mainly char acterized by the freedom it takes from the tala and raga rules in art music, as also by its depiction of various moods associated with the sentiment of love.
Prominent light classical song of a romantic and devotional nature
A light-clasical vocal and instrumental musical genre.
A song normally sung in a language traditional to the Agra-Mathura region called Brij which can have several themes such as love or the stories of Krishna. Traditionally it was sung by females and used only certain ragas. After political change the traditional aristocratic styled bandish thumri which resembled the khayal genre of the Delhi and Avadh courts gradually became eclipsed by the bol banao thumri from Benares, a more serious slower style thumri. Bade Gulam Ali Khan was considered to be the greatest thumri singer of the recent generation. There are many modern exponents.
Thumri is a common genre of semiclassical Indian music from the North. The text is romantic and devotional in nature, and usually revolves around a girl's love for Krishna. The language is a dialect of Hindi called Braj bhasha.
