A love-lyric in Urdu, of Persian Muslim origin.
Poetic form that originated in the Middle East and is composed of a series of independent couplets called shers that have a common meter and rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is aa, ba, ca, da and the last word is of the second line is usually repeated to make the rhyme.
a love song; an Arabic poetic form which passes with variations into Persian, Turkish and Urdu poetry.
a lyrical form in Urdu poetry; there are precise criteria by which a form is considered a gHazal
a traditional form of poetry in either Persian or Urdu. Ghazals are sometimes performed in a light classical style. honorifics - see this article.
A genre of classical music which involves music set to Urdu poetry. The compositions are based on raags and most themed around unrequited love.
a poetic form used in traditional Indian verse
a form of poetry consisting of a series of couplets with a refrain
a form of poetry that originated in Iran many centuries ago and made its way throughout the Middle East and Asia primarily through the extension of the Muslim influence in that part of the world
a magical blend of music and poetry
a song that sounds secular on the face of it
Urdu song-a special stream in music
A popular poetico-musical form of Hindustani semi-art or light music with considerable assimilation of initial Persian and later Urdu poetic influences.
A short monorhymed Middle Eastern lyric poem in which the first two lines rhyme with a corresponding rhyme in the second line of each succeeding couplet, thus a rhyme scheme of aa, ba, ca, etc. The ghazal usually deals with themes of love in a melancholy mood. (See also Canzone, Ode, Melic Verse, Romance, Society Verse)
Light classical song based on the Urdu poetic type of the same name
A ghazal is a collection of two-line poems that follow a given meter. It, er, it's complicated. Try the following links: Ghazal: an introduction The Ghazal Page is devoted to exploring the possiblities of the ghazal as a form for English poetry Aha Poetry
From the arabic 'to talk with/of women'. The ghazal is a poetic form with its roots in Persian literature. Ghazals are intended to be sung, the most famous ghazal singers of this century are probably Jagjit and Chitra Singh.
Couplets in Urdu that are set to music.
From the Arabic literally meaning talking to women. It is said to have originated in tenth century Iran from the Persian qasida. The part of the qasida called tashbib got detached over years and formed the ghazal. The ghazal, written in Urdu, now rarely exceeds twelve couplets and always opens with a rhyme called matla. Each couplet is self-sufficient, detachable and quotable. The central concern of the ghazal is love but political, social and moral themes are also found. Arguably the most famous writer of ghazal was Ghalib (1797-1869). There are many renown musical exponents of today and yesteryear such as Talat Mahmood, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Hariharan and Jagjit Singh.
A formal poem consisting of rhymed or unrhymed couplets that are not necessarily thematically connected; the poet's name appears in the final couplet.
Arabic love poem or love-song.
In poetry (and as the lyrics in songs), the ghazal (Persian/Arabic/Urdu: غزل; Turkish gazel) is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. (The word "ghazal" is of Arabic origins, and is pronounced roughly like the English word "guzzle", but with a different first consonant.) Ghazal (adapted into Urdu from Persian) is a reference to the cry of a gazelle.
Ghazal is a band formed by Kurdish-Iranian kamencheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Indian sitarist Shujaat Khan. Together, they perform music blending North Indian and Persian classical and light classical traditions.