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  2. Urdu ghazal - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu ghazal makes use of a store of common characters, settings, images, and metaphors that inform both readers and poets of how to navigate the aforementioned ghazal universe. [33] These tropes have been cultivated for hundreds of years and are meant to deeply resonate with listeners of the ghazal, invoking their expectations of meaning. [33]

  3. Nuqta - Wikipedia

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    The nuqta, and the phonological distinction it represents, is sometimes ignored in practice; e.g., क़िला qilā being simply spelled as किला kilā.In the text Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity, Manisha Kulshreshtha and Ramkumar Mathur write, "A few sounds, borrowed from the other languages like Persian and Arabic, are written with a dot (bindu or nuqtā).

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The time signature 4 4: four beats per measure, each beat a quarter note (a crotchet) in length. 4 4 is often written on the musical staff as . The symbol is not a C as an abbreviation for common time, but a broken circle; the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3 4. comodo

  5. Taan (music) - Wikipedia

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    Taan (Hindi: तान, Urdu: تان) is a technique used in the vocal performance of a raga in Hindustani classical music.It involves the improvisation of very rapid melodic passages using vowels, often the long "a" as in the word "far", and it targets at improvising and to expand weaving together the notes in a fast tempo.

  6. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    In a song sung by Cilla Black and covered by The Smiths, "Work Is a Four-letter Word", this phrase is used to describe work as obscene. Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the title of a 1968 British comedy film. Hope: The song "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic features the line "hope is our four-letter word". Hate: The band Shock Therapy sang a song ...

  7. Zamzama (music) - Wikipedia

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    The meaning is: addition of notes. Zamzama is a type of Alankar [ citation needed ] ) and part of the note ornamentation in Indian classical music . Like a khatka , another type of Alankara , zamzama is a cluster of notes , which is used by the musician to embellish the landing note.

  8. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    Example reading "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form ڛ ‎ is used in place of س ‎.. Nastaliq (/ ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k /; [2], Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some ...

  9. Category:Urdu letters - Wikipedia

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