Search Results for “iranian musical instruments”

• DOZĀLA

  Jean During

  kind of flute consisting of two parallel pipes pierced with holes and fitted with a removable vibrating mouthpiece made by cutting a U-shaped incision into a thin reed.

• INDIA xxvi. MUTUAL MUSICAL INFLUENCES

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    See under MUSIC.

• GUILLEMIN, MARCELLE

  Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

  One of the early investigators of the reconstruction of ancient Babylonian musical scales and music theory, she was the first scholar to explore and explain the musicological significance of the sequence of number-pairs of musical strings in a cuneiform text of the first millennium B.C.E. excavated at the archaeological site of Nippur in southern Iraq.

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• ČAḠĀNA

  Ḥosayn ʿAlī Mallāḥ

  the name given to four types of musical instruments. This spelling is found in most dictionaries. Sachs’ Real-Lexikon has čaqāna, and other forms are also found: čaḡān, čaḡana, and čaḡba; in Arabic jaḡāna or jafāna.

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• YĀḤAQQI, Ḥosayn

  Morteżā Ḥoseyni Dehkordi

  (1903-1968) renowned composer and performer of the violin and the kamānča (spiked fiddle) and instructor of music.

• DOTĀR

  Jean During

  long-necked lute of the tanbūr family, usually with two strings (do tār). The principal feature is the pear-shaped sound box attached to a neck that is longer than the box and faced with a wooden soundboard. Dotārs can be classified in several different types.

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• BAYĀT(Ī)

  J. During

  one of the old modes of the Irano-Arabic musical tradition, mentioned for the first time by Šayḵ Ṣafadī (15th century).

• ČAHĀRTĀR

  Jean During

  (lit. four-strings), a musical instrument belonging to the family of long-necked lutes.

• ČANG

  Ḥosayn-ʿAlī Mallāḥ

  In Persian literature, particularly in poetry, the harp kept an important place. In the Pahlavi text on King Ḵosrow and his page the čang player is listed among the finest of musicians. The harp was also one of the instruments played by the inmates of the harem.

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• ʿĀŠEQ HAWĀSĪ

  C. F. Albright

  “melody of the ʿāšeq,” term referring to (1) a type of poem often sung by ʿāšeqs in Iranian Azerbaijan and (2) the typical manner of singing the poem and the manner of accompanying it on the musical instrument.

• KARNĀ

  Stephen Blum

  designation of three types of musical instrument, the most prestigious being long trumpets made of brass, gold, silver, or other metals. Two regional instruments of Iran are also called karnā. Like the metal karnā, the long reed trumpet of Gilān and Māzandarān lacks fingerholes.

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• FALAKA

  Mahmoud Omidsalar

  also falak, čūb o falak; one of the most common instruments of corporal punishment in Persia.

• PIANO IN PERSIAN MUSIC

  Hormoz Farhat

  The first piano is known to have arrived in Persia as a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte to Fatḥ ʿAli Shah.

• AZERBAIJAN xi. Music of Azerbaijan

  J. During

  Iranian elements in the development of the Azeri tradition were numerous, as is shown by modern terminology (čahār meżrāb, bardāšt), as well as by certain pieces in the repertoire.

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• BARBAṬ

  J. During

  the prototype of a family of short-necked lutes characterized by a rather flat, pear-shaped sound box.

• HEDĀYAT, MOḴBER-AL-SALṬANA ii. AS MUSICIAN

  Ameneh Yousefzadeh

  Apart from a book about musical theory, the Majmaʿ al-adwār (Tehran, 1938), we owe him one of the earliest complete notations of the repertoire of Persian music (radifs).

• KEREŠMA

  Gen’ichi Tsuge

  a musical term denoting a guša, or a metric section within a guša, based on any dastgāh.

• DAF(F) AND DAYERA

  Jean During, Veronica Doubleday

  terms applied to types of frame drum common in both the art music and popular traditions of Persia. Such drums have long been known throughout Asia in various forms and under different names.  The term dāyera originally referred to the flat, circular drums of pre-­Islamic Arabia.

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• BŪSALĪK

  Hormoz Farhat

  a maqām in Arabian, Turkish, and Persian musical traditions to this day; however, the contemporary form of the maqām of Būsalīk differs from that which is given by the classical scholars.

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• DRUMS

  Jean During

  large group of percussion instruments.