16. DHADI,

DHADI, one who sings vars or ballads to the accompaniment of a musical instrument called dhad, a drumlet held in the palm of one hand and played with the fingers of the other. A concomitant of dhad is the sarangi, a stringed instrument. Dhadis, patro...

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17. DHUNI

DHUNI, from Skt. dhvani meaning sound, echo, noise, voice, tone, tune, thunder, stands in Punjabi generally for sound and tune. In the Guru Granth Sahib, the term appears in the sense of tune at the head of 9 of the 22 vars (odes) under different rag...

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18. GAJJA SINGH, MAHANT

GAJJA SINGH, MAHANT (c. 18501914), maestro of Sikh classical devotional music, was born in a Jatt Sikh family of Vandar, a village in Faridkot district of the Punjab. He had a sensitive ear for music from his early childhood. His father, a pious Sikh...

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19. GHARU

GHARU, pronounced ghar, is a term used in the titles of many of the hymns in the Guru Granth Sahib. The final "u" is only of grammatical significance indicating masculine gender and singular number. Gharu appears after the name of the rdga (musical m...

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20. GURMAT SANGIT

GURMAT SANGIT or sacred music of the Sikhs. The founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak (14691539), composed his religious verse to settings of Indian rdgas mostly from the classical tradition. Successive Gurus followed his example and considered di...

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