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NAME: RAMEEZ AHMED

REG NO: 54471

INSTRUCTOR: DR. FATIMA AGHA SHAH

TOPIC: MUGHAL AND DHRUPAD STYLE OF SINGING


INTRODUCTION
Hindustani music become influenced lots through
the Mughals. Mughals invited Hindu Singers to
examine and perform for his or their kingdoms,
therefore maximum had been transformed into
Islam and began out enhancing tune for them.
Singers found out and completed the Hindustani
tune however for the Mughals. A great example is
Mughal Emperor Akbar, who made the legendary
singer Tansen learn and sing of their court.
Hindustani music become a little bit more
influential at that time.
DHRUPAD STYLE OF SINGING IN
MUGHAL ERA
The previous style of making a song in India centered on the Dhrupad
style of making a song at which Tansen turned into a perfectionist,
however, after the Mughal influence, the Khayal style of making a
song turned into introduced. Dhrupad fashion making a song turned
into accomplished in temples to worship the Hindu gods which had
been now no longer feasible with this new fashion.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
 The most popular instrument during the Mughal period was
the stringed veena also called as the rudra veena.
 New instruments were emerged during the Mughal era like the
sitar and tabla which is now generally used in Mughal era.
FAMOUS MUSICIAN IN MUGHAL ERA
RAM DAS:
Ram Das and his son Sur Das have been well-known for his or
her skills, and so have been a part of the musicians of Akbar's
court. Ali Khan Kakori some other especially celebrated musician
of the court had the specific distinction, alongside Tansen, to be
painted through an artist with inside the imperial atelier.
MIYAN TANSEN:
As previously mentioned, the singer and instrumentalist Tansen ( Tan
Sen), become the maximum outstanding musician within side the court
of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. According to cutting-edge accounts,
Akbar's opinion of Tansen become so excessive that he insisted a
procession of musicians, making a song and playing the while,
accompany the frame to the graveyard within side the way of a marriage
procession. Akbar gave Tansen the title of Kanthabhnavansin Bilas.
About Tansen Abul Fazl has said “that singers like Tansen have not
been in India for the last thousand years.”
KHYAL:
Khyal to plenty prominence throughout the later Mughal duration
and has in view that been a cornerstone of so-referred to as natural
classical song along dhrupad, in place of lighter semi-classical
bureaucracy which includes thumri, ghazal, and qawwali While
popularly called the father of qawwali, Khusro is also stated to
have invented khyal.
VIDEO PRESENTATION :

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