Activity # 3: Feel the Music of Pakistan.
Direction: Fill up all the needed information to complete the box below. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
PAKISTAN
Central Asia
A. Countries that influences the music of Pakistan
2.
3.
Vocal Music of Pakistan
B. Ghazal
Characteristics:
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6.
C. Qawwali
Characteristics:
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10.
Answers & Comments
Answer:
A
2.Iran
3.Afghanistan
B
4.the ghazal is composed of a minimum of a five couplets and typically no more than fifteen that are structurally,thematically,and emotionally autonomous.
6.each line of the poem must be of the same length,though meter is not imposed in English.
C
8.the central themes of qawwali are love,devotion and longing(of man for Devine).
9.qawwalis are classified by their content into several categories:a hamd,Arabic for phrase is a song in phrase of Allah.
10.traditionally,a qawwali performance starts with a hamd.