Dhrupad
Dhamar
Khayal
Thumri
Tappa
Bhajan
Tarana
Shabad
Kirtan
Ghazal
Hori
Chaturang
Sargam
Chaturang
The rich array of forms has one which tries to pack in all the attractive features. Known as chaturanga (literally meaning 'four aspects', though folk-etymology would figuratively describe it as 'four colours'), it has the sthayi and antara couched in meaningful words to be followed by two parts, one of which consists of sitar/drum sounds and the other of the shorter names of the musical notes.
It can be seen that khayalnuma, tarana, trivat, ras, and chaturanga have one feature in common -the use of meaningless sound-syllables in place of words.
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