The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces. The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician comes to know through experience and absorption. It is a personal and elusive tradition of great subtlety and depth. Through extensive research, including interviews with leading musicians and recording over one hundred hours of music, Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah. In his study Professor Farhat analyses the intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations within each dastgah, and examines the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.
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"Farhat's volume takes its place in musicological literature as an important contribution to scholarship on musical systems and as a lucid, useful, and satisfying introduction to one of the great Middle Eastern classical traditions." Notes
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In this book Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah by analysing their intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations, and by examining the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.
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Music of Persia,
This review is from: The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) (Paperback)
A superb book for any musician interested in the Persian music and culture.The music scores alone are worth the purchase. O
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It was only source before Azadehfar's Rhyrhmic Structure in Iranian Music,
This review is from: The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) (Paperback)
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Farhat covers a very important issue of Iranian Music which is its modal system and the relevant concepts relating to it. However, Iranian music has another important aspect which is not examined in this book, namely rhythm of Persian music. I think a combination of Farhat's book and the recently published book of Azadehfar entitled Rhythmic Structure in Iranian Music can provide a nearly complete picture of Persian music. Although we still need some more sources particularly on sociological aspects of Iranian music. Rhythmic structure in Iranian music
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a great refernce to study Persian music,
This review is from: The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) (Paperback)
Actually it was a really wise decision by the Cambridge University Press to publish Hormoz Farhat's PhD thesis as a book. Now it's available everywhere for those who are interested in Eastern music and specially Persian classical music. Historical information in the book is also very useful. I just wish there was a CD alonside of the book :(
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Of the musical arts of the earliest civilisations on the Iranian plateau, no tangible trace has remained. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bayat-e Esfahan, Ali Naqi Vaziri, Baydt-e Tork, Zang-e Sotor, Bayat-e Tork, Baydt-e Esfahan, Masnavi Pit, Bal-e Kabutar, Bavat-e Tork, Bavdt-e Esfahan, Molla Nazi, Safiaddin Ormavi, Bayat-e Kord, Baydt-e Ajam, Middle Eastern New!
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Of the musical arts of the earliest civilisations on the Iranian plateau, no tangible trace has remained. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bayat-e Esfahan, Ali Naqi Vaziri, Baydt-e Tork, Zang-e Sotor, Bayat-e Tork, Baydt-e Esfahan, Masnavi Pit, Bal-e Kabutar, Bavat-e Tork, Bavdt-e Esfahan, Molla Nazi, Safiaddin Ormavi, Bayat-e Kord, Baydt-e Ajam, Middle Eastern New!
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- The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Peter R. Cooke in Front Matter
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter
- Classical Persian Music: An Introduction by Ella Zonis in Back Matter
- Musical Instruments by Carl Engel in Back Matter
- The Music of the Most Ancient Nations by Carl Engel in Back Matter
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- The Study of Ethnomusicology: THIRTY-ONE ISSUES AND CONCEPTS by Bruno Nettl in Back Matter
- Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond by Walter Armbrust in Back Matter
- Song from the Land of Fire: Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods (Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations) by Inna Naroditskaya in Back Matter
- In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bruno Nettl on page 392
- Sufism, Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Transactions Volume 10) by Anders Hammarlund on page 97
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