Hello everybody and good afternoon!
Honorable chief gust, respected teachers, my distinguished friends and reputable facility members, I salute you all on this eminent occasion of the prestigious seat of learning, Yangtze university.
I am grateful to all the diligent and handy organizers of this program who gave me the opportunity to speak to you, my topic is: TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN PAKISTAN
Music is a pattern of sound which combines to put up a song. Song is a combination of sounds having rhym, rhythm and tempo which is intended to give pleasure and show emotion or spirit.
Song of every culture are having deep roots in the culture in which it grooms up. Traditional songs of Pakistan are having a profound connection with Pakistani culture. Classical songs are dominated by religion. Such songs are mostly called sufisongs.as in the Christianity dramatic songs originated in the church. Church was meant to provide every culture trait to the rest of institutions.in the same way the Muslim cultural songs originated close with religious rituals. The religious scholar speaks in a poetical and theoretical way which leads to songs which catches human heart as the diet of soul. Music comes from the heart, goes to the heart and effects the heart. Even the single master piece of music turns an ignorant into a lover and lover to weep. There are different types of traditional songs in Pakistani culture based on geographical grounds but as a whole its having marked similarity.
“HAMD”which is the praise of GOD, “NAAT” praise the Holy prophet and national songs are the same throught. pukhtoon khwa traditional songs, Punjabi traditional songs.sindhi traditional songs and balochi songs are the major types.
Traditional songs and especially the classical songs went through a metamorphosis with great controversies with the change of the era from Primitivism to modernism the changes are becoming to the liking of the people but if a change or something which is not allowed to be a part of it by religion it will not be included.
In Chinese songs there is a simulation to nature. it might be in a spiritual form.in Pakistani cultural songs there is a great spirituality and invocation to GOD. Chinese songs are solely intended to give pleasure but much of Pakistani cultural songs are meant to give the religious or cultural message in persuasive way. The later one might be similar between these two.