Sentence examples for Hindustani from inspiring English sources

He loved the syncreticism of Hindustani music, with its mixture of Hindu and Muslim influences.

For Bhimsen Joshi was really interpreting Hindustani music in his own way.

Hindi and Urdu, two dialects of the language Hindustani, are the most prominent example of this sort of partitioning of language based on religious identity.

He was super-bright; he was comfortable in Urdu, Hindustani, Russian, Latin and classical Greek; he usually finished the Times crossword in 20 minutes and he knew by heart all the verses in his bestselling poetry collection, "Other Men's Flowers".

In the early 1930s, his mother asked a British official in India how to say "thank you" in Hindustani.

See also alapa; Karnatak music; Hindustani music.

A typical Hindustani performance, which may last well over an hour, begins with a long, nonmetric improvisation (alapa, or alap) by the singer or melodic soloist, followed by jor, or improvisation without metric cycle but with a perceptible pulse, and eventually by the similar but faster jhala.

Traditional Indian music is divided between the Hindustani (northern) and Carnatic (southern) schools.

A similar instrument, the pakhavaj, is played in the Hindustani tradition of northern India, as well as in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Among the most often used Hindustani talas are tintal (4 + 4 + 4 + 4 beats), rupaktal (3 + 2 + 2), and jhaptal (2 + 3 + 2 + 3).

It is one of the most important concert instruments in Hindustani music and is often accompanied by the tabla (drums) and tambura (drone lute).