Murki

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} '''Murki''' is a short taan or inverted mordent in Hindustani classical music, known as ''pratyahatam'' in Carnatic music.<ref name="Nijenhuis1976">{{cite book|author=Emmie te Nijenhuis|author-link=Emmie te Nijenhuis|title=The Rāgas of Somanātha: Musical exemples. Part 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E503AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3|accessdate=14 July 2013|year=1976|publisher=Brill Archive|isbn=978-90-04-04873-7|pages=3–}}</ref> It is a fast and delicate ornamentation or ''alankar'', employing two or more notes and is similar to a mordent or ''ulta murki''.<ref name="Hartong2006">{{cite book|author=Jan Laurens Hartong|title=Musical Terms World Wide: A Companion for the Musical Explorer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmMx0FA86QcC&pg=PA165|accessdate=14 July 2013|year=2006|publisher=Semar Publishers Srl|isbn=978-88-7778-090-4|page=165}}</ref><ref name="Nijenhuis">{{cite book|author=Emmie te Nijenhuis|title=Indian Music: History and Structure|date=5 January 1974 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrgfAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA97|accessdate=14 July 2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-03978-0|pages=97–}}</ref> A murki is less forceful than a khatka or a zamzama. A combination like R R S S could be a ''murki'' or a ''khatka'' or the starting point of a ''zamzama'', depending on the force of delivery. ''Murki''s may or may not be appropriate for a given raga. It is also employed in thumris and other lighter genres.<ref>[http://www.itcsra.org/alankar/murki/murki_index.html Murki] ITC Sangeet Research Academy.</ref>

In Punjab it is also called ''harkat''.

==See also== * Alankar

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Category:Hindustani music terminology Category:Thumri Category:Ornamentation