The music of Himachal
Pradesh a state of India located in the
northwest corner of the country, includes many kinds of folk songs from
the area, many of which are sung without accompaniment.
Styles :
Jhoori is a type of song that
celebrates extramarital romance. It is popular in Mahasu and Sirmaur,
and is accompanied by a female dance called jhoomar. Laman songs
from Kullu Valley are another type of love song. Saṃskāra songs
are sung at festivals and celebrations by women from some of the higher castes.
These songs are based on ragas, which are compositions of Indian classical music, as are the martial jhanjhotis. Ainchaliyan are religious
songs, sung at the bride's house after a wedding and by women at the home of an
unmarried girl. In Chamba-Pangi,
wandering musicians play a khanjari (tambourine)
and perform, also using string puppets.
Musical instruments :
Percussion
Himachal Pradesh folk music features a wide variety of
drums, including dammama, damanght, gajju, doru, dhaunsa, nagara,dholku, nagarth, tamaka, dafale, dhol, dolki and hudak. Non-drum
percussion instrumnts include the ghanta and ghariyal (gongs),chimta (tongs), manjira and jhanjh (cymbals), ghungru (bells), thali (platter) and kokatha murchang.
Winds
There are also wind instruments like algoja/algoza (twin flutes), peepni, shehnai (oboe), bishudi (flute), karnal (straight brass trumpet) and ranasingha (curved
brass trumpet).
Strings
String instruments include gramyang, riwana (small
fretless lute), sarangi (bowed lute), jumang, ruman, ektara and kindari davatra.
Singers
There are many dialects in Himachal Pradesh. Eact district
has its own dialect. Mohit Chauhan's 'morni', Karnail Rana's various folk
songs, Dheeraj's love songs and Thakur Das Rathi's 'Naatis'
has given great contribution to enrich the music of Himachal Pradesh.
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