tappan.
/ˈtʌpə/, U.S. /ˈtɑpə/ A short folk song of northern Indian origin. As a mass noun: the musical style or genre comprising such songs.
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1875 Academy 27 Mar. 324/3 Songs and miscellaneous poetry... ‘Tappá’ or short compositions of three, four, or five verses, mostly amatory.
1925 Times of India 24 July 8/6 Indian music—numerous Khiyals and almost all Tappas—are in the Punjabi language.
1992 Indiamail 22 Sept. 2/1 A disciple of Kumar Gandharva, she is versatile whether it is a bhajan, a ghazal, a Punjabi tappa or a Bengali folk song.
2009 R. Som Rabindranath Tagore xi. 93 The style was tappa with a rare expression of heavily worked musical phrases which characterized typical ustadi or classical music.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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