AFŠĀRĪ, one of the twelve dastgāhs or modal systems of classical Iranian music. In the contemporary tradition, Afšārī is customarily…

ṢABĀ, ABU’l-ḤASAN (b. Tehran, 1281 Š./1902; d. Tehran, 29 Āḏar 1336/19 December 1957), Persian musician and music educator (Figure 1;…

SHIRAZ ARTS FESTIVAL.  For eleven consecutive years, beginning in 1967, a festival of arts, known in Persian as Jašn-e honar,…

BŪSALĪK,   mentioned in medieval treatises on music, notably in the Ketāb al-adwār of Ṣafī-al-Dīn Ormavī (d. 693/1294), as one of…

BĪDĀD, a melody (gūša) in the modal system (dastgāh) Homāyūn, one of the twelve modal systems of the contemporary tradition…

PIANO IN PERSIAN MUSIC. The first piano known to have arrived in Persia was a gift from Napoleon Bonaparte to…

VAZIRI, ʿAli-Naqi (b. Tehran, 1887; d., Tehran, 9 September 1979), composer, virtuoso tār player, musical theorist, and educator. Life. Vaziri was…

ḴĀLEQI, RUḤ-ALLĀH (b. Kermān,1324/1906, d. Salzburg, Austria, 21 Ābān 1344/12 November 1965; Figure 1), Persian music educator, composer, and music…