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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      31 August 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511470233
      9780521542067
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470233
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      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.406kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ethnomusicology, Music, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology
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    Subjects:
    Ethnomusicology, Music, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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    Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology
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    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 absorption. It is a personal and elusive tradition of great subtlety and depth. Through extensive research, including interviews with leading musicians and recording over one hundred hours of music, Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah. In his study Professor Farhat analyses the intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations within each dastgah, and examines the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.

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