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The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology)
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music - Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: Hormoz Farhat
The tradition of Persian art music embodies twelve modal systems, known as dastgahs. Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces. The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician comes to know through experience and absor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521305426
ISBN-10: 052130542X
Publication Date: 8/31/1990
Pages: 213
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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