Bollywood Songs Terms

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• Bollywood music, formally known as Hindi Geet or Filmi songs, consists of songs featured in Hindi films.
• The ghazal tradition of Urdu poetry was the basis for early Bollywood music since the first Indian talkie film, Alam Ara (1931).
• The ghazal was the dominant style of Indian film music from the 1930s up until the 1960s.
• Bollywood song lyrics are typically written by distinguished poets or literati and set to music by professional playback singers.
• In Hindi film songs, actors lip-synch the professional playback singers' performances on screen.
• The mukhra is the primary melody and lyrics for most Hindi film songs that is repeated as a refrain throughout the song.
• Most frequently, the first line of the mukhra is also the title of the song.
• The anta is the verse in Hindi song form with a melody distinct from the mukhra.
• The bansuri is a bamboo flute used in Indian musical styles with strong cultural associations to the Hindu god Krishna.
• The tanpura is a four-string drone instrument typically tuned to the 1st and 5th scale degrees of the composition.
• In Indian classical notation, Ma is the only note in a saptak that has an equivalent sharp form referred to as tivra Ma.
• The vadi is the primary note of importance in a raga, central to the alap, bandish, and improvisational components.