About Marsias Music
Amongst all the Arts and Crafts in Gujarat, music has been one of the most important form of Performing Arts of Gujarat. Folk music occupying a major place in this arena Marsias Music is one such form of Performing Arts of Gujarat. Marsias is used in Gujarat as folk music although it is originally a form of Ghazal. However, Ghazals are also popular and very much interlinked with the everyday life of the Gujaratis.
Marsias Music of Gujarat is an elegiac form of music owing its roots to the Lucknow music school. This kind of musical expression bears intense emotional connection, is heavy with mourning as it is basically performed at the death of a family member or kin or friend. Most touching in terms of emotions expressing grief and pain, the Marsias Music is originally an Urdu Ghazal form. Mostly women wearing black clothes chant the music by weeping and clapping their hands on their chest and forehead exuding the deep emotion of loss and expiration.
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