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Music
Music sung by women is mostly about water and the style
is called panihari. It depicts daily chores and is
cantered around the well. In arid area like Rajasthan
water is of immense significance. Some of the folk songs
also talk about chance encounter with their lover. Some
even have snipes at the incorrigible mothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law.
Music here, also has strong religious flavour and is
sung in dedication to various deities. Some religious
songs are folk idioms of Saints, Surdas, Kabirdas,
Meerabai and others. These songs are mostly heard in
nightlong soirées.
Music traditions are kept alive by entertainer like the
Langas, Manganniyars, Mirasis and Dholis. The education
in music of these groups began early and passed down
from generation to generation. The folk musicians are
apt in classical tradition. Songs normally began with an
alap, which set the tune of the song and then recital of
the couplet that is called the dooba. The songs also
have the taan, the pitch and the tibias -the triplet,
which lends variance to the tune.
Ballad traditions of Rajasthan are also of great
attention. Here bards sing heroic tales of folk heroes
like Tejaji, Gogaji and Ramdeoji. They sing and narrate
heroic tales of battles and even of legendary lovers and
their tragedies. To distinctive category in this
tradition are the 'Phad' and the puppetry.
The accompanying instruments are of various varieties to
repercussion, string and wind and even common use
utilities like bells, thali (metal dishes) and earthen
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