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Music of Nepal refers to the various musical genres played and listened to in Nepal.With more than fifty ethnic groups in Nepal, the country's music is highly diverse. Genres like Tamang Selo, Chyabrung, Dohori, Adhunik Geet, Bhajan, Filmi music, Ghazal, Classical music, songs and Ratna music are widely played and popular, but many other less common genres are yet to be catal
Kartik Naach (Nepali: कात्तिक नाच, also known as Kachhalā Pyākhan (Nepal Bhasa: कछला प्याखं)), is a dance musical play that is performed every month of Kartik (October or November) in Nepal. [1] It was started in 1641 AD by Nepali Malla King Siddhi Narsingh Malla.
The festival commemorates the death of people during the year. During the festival, cows are marched in the streets and generally celebrated in the Nepalese month of Bhadra (August–September). It falls on the 1st day of the dark fortnight of Gunla according to the lunar Nepal Era calendar. Peoples also distributes food to others.
Many Nepali folk instruments [2] or lokabaja (नेपाली लोकबाजा) date back into prehistory or inaccessible history. General histories of musical instruments, such as History of Musical Instruments by Kurt Sachs, have little to say directly about Nepal. Sachs focused two chapters on India, and when addressing the ranasrnga ...
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Maithili Music is one of the most ancient types of music in the Indian subcontinent. It originated from Mithila , a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges in the south, the Gandaki River in the west and by the foothills of the Himalayas in the north.
These stories infer that Newa music is primarily derived from the classic Hindu and Buddhist music. Music accompanied most of the traditional epics and plays written in Sanskrit and Nepal Bhasa. This music is based on raga and taal system. The earliest discovered treatise on Newa music is a manuscript called Sangit Chandra Grantha.
Ratha Yatra [a] (/ ˈ r ʌ θ ə ˈ j ɑː t r ə /), or chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They are held annually during festivals in India , Nepal , and Sri Lanka . [ 5 ]