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	Some words about Khyal
		Perhaps the most popular of contemporary Hindustani vocal styles is the idiom known as "khyal." The word literally means "imagination," and the khyal form demands improvisational flexibility as well as careful attention to nuances of intonation, phrasing and rhythm.
		Khyal texts draw freely from Hindu and Muslim poetic traditions, and are usually romantic or devotional -- or a combination of the two.
		Performances of khyal often start with a song in a very slow rhythmic cycle, perhaps of 10, 12, 14 or 16 beats; often the pulse is so slow that each beat is further subdivided -- for instance, a 12-beat cycle becoming one of 48.
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	About North Indian Music.
		Khyal is a more recent style of music that evolved from dhrupad and crystallized in the seventeenth century.
		A wider variety of ornamentation is used in khyal, and the improvisation takes place within the confines of a taal.
		Audiences attending an instrumental recital hear facets of both dhrupad and khyal styles since instrumentalists are expected to be proficient and perform both genres.
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	Openflows \| These Spies Called The Shots In Strikes Against Taliban
		When Khyal was not working with Nazak, he was sometimes scouting camps and barracks with a 25-year-old farmer named Aimal or a soft-spoken 28-year-old named Faiz Mohammed, who defused land mines for a living.
		Khyal and Faiz Mohammed had given the coordinates for the widely despised Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which enforced the Taliban's draconian rules.
		Khyal and Mohammed surveyed the damage, took further GPS readings and surmised that the bombs missed because their original directions had somehow been turned 90 degrees.
	news.openflows.org /article.pl?sid=02/02/26/0521255 (3389 words)

	Khyal (Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition - with Audio cassette )
		This book is a study of khyal, the genre of North Indian classical music which has dominated in performances by highly trained vocalists for at least the past 150 years.
		In performing khyal, the singer presents a brief composition, and then improvises from twenty to forty minutes according to certain guidelines.
		Because khyal was developed by musicians employed at courts scattered throughout North India, the manner of performing it varies among different groups of musicians (gharanas).
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	[The Harborsite] "(My uncle) never told them a thing" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Khyal was along, the two could go almost anywhere: inside Taliban munitions compounds, into a trench system near the airport. From the beginning, Khyal had sought to gain the trust of the Taliban despite his family's known support of the former king.
		Khyal then went out, perhaps to pass on instructions or warnings to other operatives. As he walked along Shikar Pur Darwaza street, dodging rickshaws and mule carts, a pickup truck roared up and slammed on its brakes.
		Several Taliban policemen leaped from the back, aiming their rifles at Khyal and declaring him under arrest for spying. When Nazak returned with the car and walked through the wooden gate into the courtyard of his home, police were waiting for him too. They already had gone through the briefcase.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /pipermail/harborsite/2002-February/000549.html (5824 words)

	JS Online: Afghan spies aided U.S. forces
		Khyal and other higher-level spies were delivering the information in person to Afghan tribal chiefs living as expatriates in Pakistan.
		Khyal then left, perhaps to pass on instructions or warnings to other operatives.
		Among the valuables he and Khyal had packed were papers containing handwritten GPS coordinates, sketches of Taliban buildings and the phone number with the telltale 873 prefix indicating a satellite phone.
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	3to6:: Theatre, Theatre News, Theatre Reviews, Classical Sanskrit Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Khyal is known by different names in rajasthan…such as tamasha, nautanki, mach, swang etc. Names differ in different regions.
		In the 17th century a folk tradition of Khyal emerged in the region adjacent to Agra whose scope was limited to composing poems on mythological and historical persons and holding competition among the composers.
		Initially Khyal was a name of poetic composition born out of imagination and thinking but after it assumed the dramatic form it came to be known as Khel or Khyal.
	www.3to6.com /final_theatre/fkhyal.htm (474 words)

	KHYAL : Encyclopedia Entry
		Khyal (or Khayal: Hindi:ख़्याल, Urdu:خیال) is the modern genre of classical singing in North India; its name comes from an Arabic word meaning "imagination".
		Khyal bases itself on a repertoire of short songs (two to sixteen lines).
		The slow song, the bada khyal or great khyal, comprises most of the performance; the fast song (chhota khyal, small khyal) is a used as a finale.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Khyal (770 words)

	Khyal Creeds
		Talking in January, she admitted to curiosity about the reception of her treatment of khyal on Anahita, yet her voice betrays a little trepidation as well because hers is an audacious step.
		Khyal is but one branch of Hindustani vocal music on what could be a very complicated 3-D family tree.
		A khyal vocalist is permitted a great deal of leeway when it comes to ornamentations because the lion’s share of the piece will be pure improvisation, all the while staying true to the raga's map of ascending and desccending contours,the notes that shape and differentiate each raga.
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	Music of Asia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		KHYAL sung by Ustad Amir Khan, a professional hereditary Hindusthani musician.
		Khyal is also performed in two parts, the first in slow tempo called bara(big) khyal, and the second in fast tempo called chota (small) khyal.
		This khyal is sung in rag Bilaskhani Tori, which has four flats and is in Bhairavi that, with an ascending pentatonic line and heptatonic (6-note) descent Khyal is also performed in two parts, the first in slow tempo called bara (big) khyal, and the second in fast tempo called chota (small) khyal.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/20c/southasialisteningnotes.htm (3328 words)

	AAS Abstracts: South Asia Session 70 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Khyal is an evocative word; its meanings include "feeling," "belief," and "fancy." It designates a major type of emotion laden song, involving variations on a short phrase, in classical North Indian vocal music.
		But whereas filmi songs are learned from radio and cassette, khyal are women's own creations and give voice lightly to their feelings and fancies.
		But khyal reveal and comment on changing worlds, expressing sentiments influenced by new economic and social realities: desires for husbands with jobs, for educational opportunities, for consumer goods from the city, for a household independent of the joint family.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/southasi/sases70.htm (1170 words)

	Dhrupad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A new genre, khyal, gained popularity at dhrupad's expense.
		Also, new instruments were being developed - the sitar and the sarod - that were not suited to the slow tempo and low register favoured by dhrupad, so that dhrupad instrumental also began to lose ground.
		As a consequence, in the first half of the 20th Century khyal was all-pervasive, along with the new instrumental style of classical music, and dhrupad was becoming all but extinct.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/dh/dhrupad.html (1012 words)

	Amazon.ca: khyal: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Khyal by Bonnie C. Wade (Hardcover - Dec 1997)
		Khyal by Wade and John Blacking (Hardcover - Mar 28 1985)
		Khyal Cassette by Wade (Audio Cassette - Mar 28 1985)
	www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=khyal&tag=54003-20&index=books&page=1 (64 words)

	Khyal : North Indian classical music genre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It means imagination, thought in hindi, mostly because khyal doesn't follow only one preconceived poetical structure, or a particular tal and is based on various musical improvisation.
		Originating from the Laboratory of musical influences that used to be the Dargahs of soufi saints, maintained by the nobility of India's 18th decadent and music loving moghol empire, khyal has developped rich patrimony of devotional, romantic even (shadowed) erotic poems.
		Khyal is also played on string instruments (sitar, sarangi) and wind instruments (flute, shehenai).
	makar-records.com /siteus/khyal.html (160 words)

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	KARUNA KHYAL Alomoni 1985 review by Black Velvet(Apsalar)
		Over the last decade many rumours about the band have been circulating the Japanese Psychedelic underground scene who owes a huge debt to Karuna Khyal in all their oddities.
		This one will be put on repeat for days at a time, unable to bring myself to stop the immense pleasure I receive from listening to this album.
		The first piece "Karuna Khyal part 1" is a connection of smaller pieces fused together to produce one large song.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=82991 (570 words)

	Girija Devi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Girija Devi's repertoire is extremely broad and varied and includes the classical khyal genre as well as a multitude of intricate 'light classical' genres including thumri, tappa, tap-khyal, holi, chaiti, kajri and dadra.
		She is one of the top singers of Indian classical music today, admired and loved by a wide audience, internationally as well as in her home country.
		Songs composed in the Khyal genre are generally based on the themes of romantic love and religious devotion.
	www.sonarupa.co.uk /itm00373.htm (207 words)

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		All major Tehran galleries now got their own URL on Khyal using www.khyalgallery.com/galleries/galleryname which you can find a list of them and more details of each gallery using http://www.khyalgallery.com/Galleries.aspx which you might notice the home pages of galleries are coded using HttpHandlers.
		All major Tehran galleries now got their own URL on Khyal using www.khyalgallery.com/galleries/galleryname which you can find a list of them and more details of each gallery using http://www.khyalgallery.com/Galleries.aspx which you might notice the home pages of galleries are coded using HttpHandlers.
		Khyal Gallery, is an English language web site in which Iranian painters will be exhibiting their artworks for sell.
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	early morning ragas
		The rendition in raga Lalit continues by picking up tempo with chota khyal which is set to madhya laya teental (mediun 16 beats) whose wordings are "bamada yarda jo bana".
		The artists concludes the raga with a tarana, a fast movement of notes using syllables which does not have any meaning, whose rhythmic cycle is set to drut teental (fast 16 beats).
		Chota Khyal : Composition- "Bamda yarda jo bana".
	www.mantramusic.com /man2.htm (334 words)

	Pakistan: Nazakat & Salamat Ali Khan: Raga Darbari Kanarra CD - NET-55837
		The brothers Nazakat and Salamat Ali Khan are legendary performers of khyal, a less austere form of classical singing than the very austere dhrupad (derived from a Persian word meaning "imagination"), and not to be confused with qawwali, the Sufi devotional music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Hkan and others.
		They are exponents of the Khyal, a vocal style going back to the 15th Century and regarded as the highest and most significant form of North Indian instrumental and vocal music.
		The Khan family has cultivated the Khyal for generations and the two brothers have developed it to further heights of perfection.
	www.worldmusicstore.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=596 (270 words)

	Rudra-Vina, Divers - Glossaire
		Aujourd'hui supplanté par le genre khyal, il demeure néanmoins la forme musicale de référence de la musique hindoustanie.
		C'est le nom donné aux "compositions" instrumentales interprétées dans le genre Khyal.
		Khyal : Genre vocal ornementé qui remplaça progressivement le dhrupad.
	www.rudravina.com /html/divr_01.html (1369 words)

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		To commence the performance, the khyal singer may sing just a few phrases to give an indication of the structure and flavour of the raga (known as auchar) before the tabla player joins in.
		In the first and main part of a khyal performance (usually referred to as vilambit or bada khyal), the artist chooses a slow or medium tempo song in which the raga is gradually unfolded.
		Most khyals and thumris are composed in Braj bhasha, the western literary dialect of Hindi; others in Avadhi, its eastern counterpart, and Punjabi.
	www.sudeepaudio.com /articles/ragaperf.htm (1270 words)

	Brast Burn & Karuna Khyal
		Karuna Khyal are, by contrast, an altogether more psychotic proposition, quite capable of inducing frontal lobe fatigue in those lacking a hardy constitution.
		Brast Burn are apparently linked with Karuna Khyal, some people say they were the same band, they had the next release on Voice Records and were also treated to the CD remaster courtesy of Paradigm, the album being "Alomoni 1985" and a more psychotic outing altogether!
		Karuna Khyal's Alomoni 1985 was also on Voice Records, labelmates to Brast Burn (they were VO-1002 to the latter's 1001), Khyal were actually more Faust-like.
	www.stalk.net /paradigm/pd0708.html (5004 words)

	Sulochana Brahaspati: Raga Bilaskhani Todi-Khyal, Raga Mishra Bhairavi-Tappa CD - NI-5305
		The term khyal has been translated variously as thought, imagination, contemplation or fantasy.
		Khyal is less restrictive than the older, sober dhrupad genre; it allows the freer expression of musical ideas, without transgressing the fundamental laws governing raga music.
		It has often been characterised as feminine, contrary to the more robust dhrupad, and its songs are largely based on the topics of romantic love and religious devotion.
	www.worldmusicstore.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=5451 (130 words)

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