ḴONYĀGAR (MPers. huniyāgar < huniyāg ‘delightful’, Pers. ḵonyāgar, from ḵonyā ‘song, melody’), entertainer, instrumentalist, minstrel, singer. The term huniyāgar appears…

HEDAYAT, MOḴBER-AL-SALṬANA ii. AS MUSICIAN Mehdiqoli Khan Hedayat was also a great music lover. Apart from a book about musical…

In the context of the cultural policy of the Islamic Republic, the music of Khorasan, like the music of other…

ḤOSAYNQOLI, ĀQĀ, Persian musician (b. Tehran, 1270/1853, d. Tehran, 1334/1916; Figure 1), the son of Āqā ʿAli-Akbar Farāhāni, who was…

ḤOSAYN KHAN KAMĀNČAKAŠ, a famous musician and a master of the kamānča, the chief traditional Persian string instrument played with…

HAFT ḴOSRAVĀNI, the seven musical systems or modes attributed by Abu Manṣur Ṯaʿālebī (Ḡorar, p. 698) to Bārbad (q.v.), the…

Bards usually perform the Köroǧlu/Goroḡli epic to the accompaniment of a string instrument, such as the sāz, the dambura, or…