The dastgāh concept in Persian music:

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 musi...

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Main Author: Farhat, Hormoz (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990
Series:Cambridge studies in ethnomusicology
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470233
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470233
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470233
Summary: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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Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 201 pages)
ISBN:9780511470233
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511470233

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