The tar shehnai, also spelled tarshenai or sometimes tar shehanai, is an esraj (an Indian bowed instrument) whose sound is amplified by a metal horn attached to its sound board. The term is also used to refer to the horn itself. The horn of a phonograph has sometimes been used.
The instrument sounds similar to a violin or to a shehnai (an Indian reed instrument like an oboe or shawm). It is sometimes used instead of a shehnai when no shehnai player is available. The word tar means "stringed".
A tar shehnai played by Daksinaranjan Tagore is used in Satyajit Ray's film Pather Panchali to accompany the scene in which Harihar and Sarbajaya weep over the death of their daughter Durga. Ray considered Tagore "one of [the instrument's] best exponents", and found its high, "piercing" sound "suggestive of grief".
The shehnai, shahnai, shenai or mangal vadya (Hindi:शहनाई, Bengali:শানাই, Marathi:सनई) is a musical instrument similar to the oboe, common in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It is made out of wood, with a double reed at one end and metal or wooden flared bell at the other end. Its sound is thought to create and maintain a sense of auspiciousness and sanctity and, as a result, is widely used during marriages, processions and in temples although it is also played in concerts. The shehnai is similar to South India's nadaswaram.
Characteristics
This tubular instrument gradually broadens towards the lower end. It usually has between six and nine holes. It employs one set of quadruple reeds, making it a quadruple reedwoodwind. By controlling the breath, various tunes can be played on it.
A tarì (طري lit. "fresh" or "newly minted money" in Arabic) was the Christian designation of a type of gold coin of Islamic origin minted in Sicily, Malta and Southern Italy from about 913 to 1859.
History
In the Islamic world, this type of coin was designated under the name ruba'i, or quarter-dinar, as it weighed 1.05g of gold. The ruba'i had been minted by the Muslims in Sicily, unlike the Muslim rulers of North Africa, who preferred the larger dinar. It became highly popular as it was smaller and therefore more convenient than the large-sized 4.25g dinar.
The tarì were so widespread that imitations were made in southern Italy (Amalfi and Salerno) from the mid-tenth century, which only used illegible "pseudo-Kufic" imitations of Arabic. When the Normans invaded Sicily in the 12th century, they issued tarì coins bearing legends in Arabic and Latin.Roger II of Sicily issued such coins, becoming the only Western ruler at that time to mint gold coins. Their title was 161⁄3carat, with some adjunction of silver and copper. The tarì were also produced by the Hohenstaufens and the early Angevins.
The Color of Time (aka Tar) is a 2012 drama film written and directed by twelve New York University film students: Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta and Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo. It stars James Franco, Henry Hopper, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain and Zach Braff. It premiered on November 16, 2012 at the Rome Film Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom in 2014 under the new title Forever Love. The film was released in the United States in theaters and on demand beginning on December 12, 2014.
Plot
The different parts of Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams' life told through his poems. Flashbacks of his childhood, his teens, college years, to when he meets and marries his wife, Catherine (Kunis) and the birth of his children and parenthood. The film is narrated by different versions of Williams (Franco, Hopper, March, Unger), depicting the different aspects of Williams through the years.
De lunes a domingo voy desesperado, el corazón prendido en el calendario buscándote y buscando como un mercenario, tú dime dónde estás, que yo no te he encontrado. Tus manecillas giran, yo voy al contrario, comiéndome la vida a sorbos y a tragos me viste así, de frente, ¡qué tremendo impacto! Para unirme a tu mirada dime si hay que ser Torero, poner el alma en el ruedo, no importa lo que se venga pa' que sepas que te quiero, como un buen torero, me juego la vida por ti. Si hay que ser torero, poner el alma en el ruedo, no importa lo que se venga pa' que sepas que te quiero, como un buen torero, me juego la vida por ti. Y te cuentan que ya me vieron en solitario en un callejón, que ya no duermo y desvarío, que el humor ya me cambió y tú, ¿por dónde estás que mi presión ya no me va? Te buscaré, vuelve conmigo y que tú no sabes que yo te necesito como el perro al amo, que si tú no respondes, aquí todo es caos, me viste así, de frente, ¡qué tremendo impacto! para unirme a tu mirada dime si hay que ser torero, poner el alma en el ruedo, no importa lo que se venga, pa' que sepas que te quiero, como un buen torero, me juego la vida por ti. Si hay que ser torero, poner el alma en el ruedo, no importa lo que se venga pa' que sepas que te quiero, como un buen torero, me juego la vida por ti. En noviembre hasta enero sí que te necesito, de junio a febrero quiero que estés conmigo y en marzo el amor, en diciembre tú y yo, no importa, mi amada, si hay, si hay que ser Torero, poner el alma en el ruedo, no importa lo que se venga
Published. 29 October 2022. Reporter. David UptonShare... Some passages are arranged for Indian classical instruments including the sitar, tabla and tar shehnai, in addition to European baroque instruments such as harpsichord, theorbo and lirone ... Details ... .
Fairy lights illuminate the garden ... how to deal with grief ... Similarly Kirpal Singh Panesar, master of the bowed tar shehnai, offered the evening’s climactic finale in the singing role of Apollo/Guru, addressing words of comfort to the grieving Orpheus.
