MUSIC

 Nepal is the home of happy and gay music as it may be heard every day resounding in between green mountains and in the plains as well. Folk songs are very popular in Nepal. People sing melodious songs with cheerful concentration in all occasions whether they are working in the field or constructing the roads, building the houses or walking to a long distance. They sing to relax as well. Innumerable people sing in groups during festivals. 

However, music and songs of various races and linguistic groups are different from one another. Traditional, linguistic and geographical factors play vital role in the formations of music and rhythm. In mountain regions there is a popular type of folk sing in which males and females sing in turns with view to win the debate between them by pleading stronger points in verses they instantly make and sing. Such songs are romantic in contents, males generally singing offensive verses. Such a discussion takes place in Terai regions between two males on any subject which sometime may create much tension between the followers of the singers. 

In cities, people sing only in parties, excursions or other such occasions only. Groups of religious minded people sing religious songs at the shrines of various deities. 

Nepal is also rich in classical and traditional music. In Newari, there are seasonal music and rhythm, classical music and instruments and hundred of appropriate occasions prescribed separately for such music and instruments.