Music and Song in Persia: The Art of ĀvāzThis study analyzes the theory and practice of Persian singing (Avaz), demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music, and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics. |
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Page 112
... poets were often vocalists as well.8 Safvat stated that most Persian music is closely connected to poetry and that a line of music can bring to mind a line of poetry or an entire poem : Une grande partie de la musique iranienne est d ...
... poets were often vocalists as well.8 Safvat stated that most Persian music is closely connected to poetry and that a line of music can bring to mind a line of poetry or an entire poem : Une grande partie de la musique iranienne est d ...
Page 131
... poetry in different Indo - European languages as compared to poetry of pre - Islamic Semitic languages indicates that , if the concept of quantitative metric poetry did exist in pre - Islamic Persian , Greek , Latin and Sanskrit , then ...
... poetry in different Indo - European languages as compared to poetry of pre - Islamic Semitic languages indicates that , if the concept of quantitative metric poetry did exist in pre - Islamic Persian , Greek , Latin and Sanskrit , then ...
Page 135
... poetry exist in which meter and rhyme are obvious.25 Khānlari postulates that present - day Persian metric poetry could well have been inherited from the Sasanians and even before.26 There are only a few examples of the type of metric ...
... poetry exist in which meter and rhyme are obvious.25 Khānlari postulates that present - day Persian metric poetry could well have been inherited from the Sasanians and even before.26 There are only a few examples of the type of metric ...
Contents
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PERSIA | 1 |
MUSIC ISLAM MYSTICISM AND PROPER PERFORMANCE | 13 |
PRESERVATION AND PROPAGATION OF PERSIAN | 29 |
Copyright | |
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2nd form Abdollah Abu Atā Afghanistan Afshāri Ap Bb Arabic Araq āvāz Bayat-e Kord beloved Borumand Center for Preservation Chahar Mezrāb Chahargah Chahārpāre Darāmad Darāmad-e Dovvom Darvish Khan Daryush Safvat Dashti dastgah Davāmi del-e Delkash Dobeiti Eastern Arts eshq Ferdosi Forud Gilaki gushe Gushe-ye Hafez Hazaj meter Hazin Hesar Homayun Hosein Ibid instrument Iran Iranian Music Isfahan Islamic Jāmi Kereshme khod Leili(o Ma'rufi Maghlub Mahur Majnun Masnavi masters melodic segments modal scale modal systems mode Mohammad Mokhalef musicians Musiqi-ye musique Muye mystic Naghme Nahib Nahoft Navā Neiriz Noruz-e Oshshaq Pahlavi Parisă performance Persian Literature Persian music Persian traditional music poetry Preservation and Propagation Qarache quarter tone radif Rāje Rāk Rāk-e Razavi ru-ye Rumi Sa'di Sabā Safvat santur Segah setär Shekaste Shiraz Shirin Shur Shushtari song texts spiritual Sufi Tarz Tehran Journal Tork traditional music Translation verse vocal VV-V witness note Zabol Zangule