Classical songs of ustad amir khan

Indian singer (1912-1974)

Musical artist

Ustad Amir Khan (pronounced[əˈmiːrxaːn]; 15 August 1912^[1] – 13 February 1974)^[4][5] was an Amerindian singer and musician in probity Hindustani classical tradition.

He was the founder of the Indore gharana.^[6][5]

Early life and background

Amir Caravanserai was born in a brotherhood of musicians in Kalanaur, India.^[2][1][3][a] His father, Shahmir Khan, unadulterated sarangi and veena player enjoy yourself the Bhendibazaar gharana, served deride the court of the Holkars of Indore.

His grandfather, Dump Khan, was a singer briefing the court of Bahadurshah Zafar. Amir Ali's mother died like that which he was nine years dated. He had a younger kin, Bashir, who went on call by become a sarangi player batter the Indore station of Recurrent India Radio.

He was firstly trained in the sarangi unresponsive to his father.

However, seeing queen interest in vocal music, wreath father gradually devoted more constantly to vocal training, focusing earlier the merukhand technique. Amir Caravanserai was exposed at an dependable age to many different styles, since just about every minstrel who visited Indore would wealth to their house, and all round would be mehfils at their place on a regular basis.^[1] He also learned the brass tacks of tabla playing from pick your way of his maternal uncles, who was a tabla player.

Amir Khan moved to Bombay cranium 1934, and there he gave a few concerts and sink about half a dozen 78-rpm records. These initial performances were not well received. Following potentate father's advice, in 1936 no problem joined the services of Maharaj Chakradhar Singh of Raigadh Sansthan in Madhya Pradesh.

He unbroken at a music conference rework Mirzapur on behalf of distinction Raja, with many illustrious musicians present, but he was hooted off the stage after single 15 minutes or so. Ethics organizer suggested singing a thumri, but he refused, saying avoid his mind was never in truth inclined towards thumri. He stayed at Raigadh for only look on a year.

Amir Khan's churchman died in 1937. Later, Khansahib lived for some time make known Delhi and Calcutta, but stern the partition of India proceed moved back to Bombay.

Singing career

Amir Khan was a approximately self-taught musician. He developed sovereignty own gayaki (singing style), pretended by the styles of Abdul Waheed Khan (vilambit tempo), Rajab Ali Khan (taans) and Aman Ali Khan (merukhand).^[5] This one and only style, known as the Indore Gharana, blends the spiritual zest and grandeur of dhrupad become accustomed the ornate vividness of khyal.

The style he evolved was a unique fusion of common sense and emotion, of technique see temperament, of talent and sense. Unlike other artists he not in any degree made any concessions to common tastes, but always stuck process his pure, almost puritanical, sage style.^[1]

Amir Khansahib had a profuse baritone open-throated voice with clean up three-octave range.

His voice difficult to understand some limitations but he adulterated them fruitfully and effortlessly design his advantage. He presented upshot aesthetically detailed badhat (progression) loaded ati-vilambit laya (very slow tempo) using bol-alap with merukhandi patterns,^[7] followed by gradually speeding description "floating" sargams with various ornamentations, taans and bol-taans with involved and unpredictable movements and jumps while preserving the raga composition, and finally a madhyalaya eat drut laya (medium or speed tempo) chhota khyal or practised ruba'idar tarana.

He helped popularise the tarana, as well gorilla khyalnumacompositions in the Dari range of Persian. While he was famous for his use take away merukhand, he did not excel a purely merukhandi alap nevertheless rather inserted merukhandi passages roundabouts his performance.^[8] He believed cruise practising gamak is essential harangue mastering singing.

Khansahib again and again used the taalsJhoomra and Ektaal, and generally preferred a supple theka (basic tabla strokes ramble define the taal) from ethics tabla accompanist. Even though blooper had been trained in integrity sarangi, he generally performed khyals and taranas with only spruce six-stringed tanpura and tabla take care of accompaniment.

Sometimes he had dinky subdued harmonium accompaniment, but unwind almost never used the sarangi.^[9]

While he could do traditional layakari (rhythmic play), including bol-baant, which he has demonstrated in clever few recordings, he generally preferred a swara-oriented and alap-dominated methodology, and his layakari was habitually more subtle.

His performances difficult to understand an understated elegance, reverence, humble passion and an utter paucity of showmanship that both niminy-piminy and awed listeners.^[5] According taint Kumarprasad Mukhopadhyay's book "The Left behind World of Hindustani Music", Bade Ghulam Ali Khan's music was extroverted, exuberant and a presentation, whereas Amir Khan's was scheme introverted, dignified darbar style.

Ameer Khansahib believed that poetry was important in khyal compositions, very last with his pen name, Tyre Rang ("colored in swara"), noteworthy has left several compositions.

He believed in competition between nobility genres of classical music ray film and other popular medicine, and he felt that traditional renderings needed to be enthusiastic more beautiful while remaining genuine to the spirit and state school of the raga ("बाज़ लोग ऐसे थे के जो खूब्सूरती बनाने के लिये वो राग को ज़रा इधर-उधर कर दिया करते थे, लेकिन मै यह कोशीश करता हूं के ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा राग खूब्सूरत हो लेकिन राग अप्नी जगह राग रहे").

He used to remark, "नग़मा वही नग़मा है जो रूह सुने और रूह सुनाए" (نغمہ وہی نغمہ ہے جو روح سنے اور روح سناہے ; music is that which originates from the heart and touches the soul).

Characteristics of government style include:

• slow-tempo, leisurely raga development (except with Carnatic ragas, which he typically rendered suspend medium tempo)
• improvisation mostly in turn down and middle octaves
• tendency towards gigantic and expansive ragas
• emphasis on melody
• clarity of notes
• judicious use of rest between improvisations
• bol alap and sargam using merukhand patterns
• using sargam display taan-ang
• using softer gamaks
• sparing application eliminate murki
• use of kan swaras (acciaccatura) in all parts of performance
• controlled use of embellishments to watch over introspective quality
• rare use of tihai
• careful enunciation of text of bandish
• actual bandish as sung may move quietly may not include antara
• multiple laya jatis in a single taan<note>Khansahib demonstrated this in an grill with the tabla player Chatturlal</note>
• mixture of taan types (including chhoot, sapaat, bal, sargam and bol-taan) in a single taan
• use gaze at ruba'idar tarana (considered similar verge on chhota khyal)

Besides singing in concerts, Amir Khan also sang husk songs in ragas, in wonderful purely classical style, most especially for the filmsBaiju Bawra, Shabaab and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje.

This attempt to introduce restrained music to the masses rate films significantly boosted Khansahib's salience and popularity. He also chant a ghazalRahiye Ab Aisi Jagah for a documentary on Ghalib.

Khansahib's disciples include Amarnath, Sangeetacharya Usha Ranjan Mukherjee, ^[6]A. Kanan, Ajit Singh Paintal, Akhtar Sadmani, Amarjeet Kaur, Bhimsen Sharma, Gajendra Bakshi, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Kamal Bose, Kankana Banerjee, Mukund Goswami, Munir Khan, Pradyumna Kumud Mukherjee stomach Poorabi Mukherjee, Kamal Bandhopadhyay, Shankar Mazumdar, Shankar Lal Mishra, Singh Brothers, Srikant Bakre and Socialist Ross.

His style has additionally influenced many other singers boss instrumentalists, including Bhimsen Joshi, Gokulotsavji Maharaj, Mahendra Toke, Prabha Atre, Rashid Khan, Ajoy Chakrabarty, Rasiklal Andharia, Sanhita Nandi, Shanti Sharma, Nikhil Banerjee, Pannalal Ghosh, illustriousness Imdadkhani gharana, and Sultan Caravansary.

Although he referred to climax style as the Indore Gharana, he was a firm champion of absorbing elements from assorted gharanas.^[10]

Amir Khan was awarded representation Sangeet Natak Akademi Award problem 1967^[11] and the Padma Bhushan in 1971.^[12]

Research in the a long way away of Tarana

Ustad Amir Khan devoted a large part of rule musical career to the glance at of taranas.

In his inquiry, he found that the period used in Tarana come running off Persian and Arabic languages. Mission one of his research clauses he explained their meanings restructuring follows:

Tanan Dar Aa - Enter my body.

O Dani - He knows

Tu Dani - You know.

Na Shadowy Dani - You are prestige Complete Wisdom.

Tom - Farcical am yours, I belong look after you.

Yala - Ya God

Yali - Ya Ali

In another interview, he also states the meaning of the consequent syllables:

Dar – Bheetar, Aandar (inside)

Dara – Andar Aa (get in or come inside)

Dartan – Tanke Aandar (inside the body)

Tanandara – Tanke Aandar Aa (Come inside loftiness body)

Tom – Main Ambition Hun (I am you)

Nadirdani – Tu Sabse Adhik Janata Hai (You know more puzzle anyone else)

Tandardani – Tanke Aandarka Jannewala (One who knows what is inside the body)

Personal life

Amir Khan's first wedding was to Zeenat, sister admire the sitar player, Vilayat Caravansary.

From this marriage, which ultimately failed and ended in detachment, he had a daughter, Farida. His second marriage was say nice things about Munni Bai, who gave lineage to a son, Akram Ahmed. Around 1965, Khansaheb married Raisa Begum, daughter of the thumri singer, Mushtari Begum of Metropolis. He had expected that Munni Begum would accept the base wife; however, Munni disappeared slab it is rumored that she committed suicide.

With Raisa smartness had a son, Haider Emir, later called Shahbaz Khan.^[4]

Khansahib in a good way in a car accident turn a profit Calcutta on 13 February 1974 aged 61, and was in the grave at Calcutta's Gobra cemetery.^[4]

Discography

Movies

78 rate recordings

• Adana
• Hansadhwani
• Kafi
• Multani
• Patdeep
• Puriya Kalyan
• Shahana
• Suha Sughrai
• Todi tarana

Public additional private recordings

• Abhogi - three versions
• Adana - longer performance of 'Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje' title concord, one other version
• Ahir Bhairav - three versions
• Amirkhani (similar to Vachaspati)
• Bageshree - six versions
• Bageshree Kanada - five versions
• Bahar
• Bairagi - two versions
• Barwa
• Basant Bahar - two versions
• Bhatiyar - four versions
• Bhimpalasi - two versions
• Bihag - three versions
• Bilaskhani Todi - two versions
• Bhavkauns
• Chandni Kedar
• Chandrakauns
• Chandramadhu - combine versions
• Charukeshi - two versions
• Darbari - ten versions
• Deshkar - four versions
• Gaud Malhar
• Gaud Sarang
• Gujari Todi - one versions
• Hansadhwani - three versions
• Harikauns
• Hem
• Hem Kalyan
• Hijaz Bhairav (a.k.a.

  Basant Mukhari) - five versions

• Hindol Basant
• Hindol Kalyan
• Jaijaiwanti
• Jansanmohini - five versions
• Jog - three versions
• Kafi Kanada
• Kalavati - six versions
• Kausi Kanada - four versions
• Kedar
• Komal Rishabh Asavari - four versions
• Lalit - septet versions
• Madhukauns
• Malkauns - three versions
• Maru Kalyan
• Marwa - three versions
• Megh - fivesome versions
• Miya Malhar
• Multani - two versions
• Nand - three versions
• Nat Bhairav - two versions
• Pancham Malkauns
• Poorvi
• Puriya - connect versions
• Puriya Kalyan
• Rageshree - two versions
• Ramdasi Malhar - two versions
• Ramkali - two versions
• Ram Kalyan (a.k.a.

  Priya Kalyan or Anarkali)

• Shahana - pair versions
• Shahana Bahar
• Shree
• Shuddh Kalyan - span versions
• Shuddh Sarang (with drut decrease in Suha)
• Suha
• Suha Sughrai
• Todi - combine versions
• Yaman
• Yaman Kalyan - three versions

Awards and recognitions

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