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Ghazal Ensemble Kayhan Kalhor. The Rain Ghazal. Lost Songs of the Silk Road Ghazal. Videos Archive. Photos Archive. Events Concert Workshop Archive. Not Found. Blog Press Archive. Follow us on Social Networks. The first couplet introduces a scheme, made up of a rhyme followed by a refrain. Subsequent couplets pick up the same scheme in the second line only, repeating the refrain and rhyming the second line with both lines of the first stanza.

The final couplet usually includes the poet's signature, referring to the author in the first or third person, and frequently including the poet's own name or a derivation of its meaning. Traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, ghazals are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians. The form has roots in seventh-century Arabia, and gained prominence in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century thanks to such Persian poets as Rumi and Hafiz.

In the eighteenth-century, the ghazal was used by poets writing in Urdu, a mix of the medieval languages of Northern India, including Persian.

Among these poets, Ghalib is the recognized master. Other languages that adopted the ghazal include Hindi, Pashto, Turkish, and Hebrew. Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Begum Akhtar popularized the ghazal in the English-speaking world during the s.

However, it was the poet Agha Shahid Ali who introduced it, in its classical form, to Americans. Ali compared each ghazal couplet to "a stone from a necklace," which should continue to "shine in that vivid isolation.

What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? But he has bought grief's lottery, bought even the rain. After we died—That was it! And as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain. Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house. For mixers, my love, you'd poured—what? A consumer's note: though this is on ECM, there is no trace of the "ECM sound" on this recording, and though it was mixed for this CD, it remains full of its original live ambience. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.

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