Music of a Thousand Years
Music of a Thousand Years

Author: Ann E. Lucas

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0520300807

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history.

The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music

Author: Hormoz Farhat

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-07-08

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780521542067

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In this book Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah by analysing their intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations, and by examining the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.

Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B)
Music and Song in Persia (RLE Iran B)

Author: Lloyd Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1136814876

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This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

Iranian Classical Music
Iranian Classical Music

Author: Dr Laudan Nooshin

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0754607038

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This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings and the relationships of alterity which they sustain. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of central issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practices by which new music comes into being.

Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music
Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music

Author: Owen Wright

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780754663287

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In this book, Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The analysis identifies salient structural features in a way accessible to the western reader, but it also takes account of the analytical metalanguage used in Persian scholarship, and includes consideration of the relationship between music and poetry. It is also framed by an introduction which combines a biographical sketch of Touraj Kiaras with a survey of the twentieth-century evolution of Persian classical music and of the position of the vocal repertoire within it, and an epilogue which examines further the ideological basis of prevalent attitudes to music, and seeks to explore the validity of the analytical enterprise within this context.