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gat| Hindustani composition type, usually played on plucked stringed instruments such as the sitar and sarod. Most are based on one of a limited number of stereotypical stroke patterns, and comprise two or three sections (sthayi, antara, and sometimes manjha). The most common type is the Masitkhani gat, named after the 19th-century sitarist Masit Khan, set in the 16-beat metric cycle teental at a slow tempo. |
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| I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. But the pillar was composed of both the day and the night guiding, for the fire was in the red eye, which at the thought gat a new fascination for me, till, as I looked, the fire divided, and seemed to shine on me through the fog like two red eyes, such as Lucy told me of in her momentary mental wandering when, on the cliff, the dying sunlight struck the windows of St. I was kneeling by her bedside when the voice spoke loud within me; but immediately I rose, and took my staff, and gat me gone. |
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