ĀVĀZ, in modern Persian “song” (of any kind) or, more broadly, “music.” In use it thus resembles Arabic ḡenāʾ (singing),…

ABŪ ʿAṬĀ (ʿAṬĀʾ), one of the twelve modes in the dastgāh system of classical Iranian music; more precisely, it should…

KEREŠMA, a musical term denoting a melodic unit (guša), or a metric section within a guša, based on any modal…

KEREŠMA, a musical term denoting a guša, or a metric section within a guša, based on any dastgāh. In poetry,…

IQĀʿ (pl. iqāʿāt), an Arabic term used in texts on music to denote rhythmic mode (or cycle) or rhythmic pattern….