G. Tsuge Articles by G. Tsuge ĀVĀZ ĀVĀZ, in modern Persian “song” (of any kind) or, more broadly, “music.” In use it thus resembles Arabic ḡenāʾ (singing),… ABŪ ʿAṬĀ ABŪ ʿAṬĀ (ʿAṬĀʾ), one of the twelve modes in the dastgāh system of classical Iranian music; more precisely, it should…