The concept of Iranian traditional musical modes, namely DASTGÄH, is the basis for the traditional music system. The concept introduces seven DASTGÄHs. It is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. Apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...

the concept of iranian traditional musical modes, namely dastgäh, is the basis for the traditional music system. the concept introduces seven dastgähs. it is not an easy process to distinguish these modes and such practice is commonly performed by an experienced person in this field. apparently, applying artificial intelligence to do such classification requires a combination of the basic infor...

abstract       this study shows that how each composer creates a colorful choral folksong picture, gives an individual  interpretation and new life to a folk melody, and also makes an independent musical work. the present article studies the choral arrangement of the iranian folk songs as a creative musical genre of the modern iranian music. the importance of this genre involves in several chal...

Orchestras of Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) enable new musical collaboration possibilities, extending those of acoustic and electric orchestras. However the creation and development of these orchestras remain constrained. In fact, each new musical collaboration system or orchestra piece relies on a fixed number of musicians, a fixed set of instruments (often only one), and a fixed subset o...

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

the confrontation between iranian and western musical cultures and especially taking the idea of western orchestra is a topic that had incongruous dimensions in iranian music. therefore, this process leads up to some questions: what is the relationship between the multiplicity of musical performance and identity of iranian music? and the other question: did such a process in its different dimen...

In this study, a system for Iranian traditional music Dastgah classification is presented. Persian music is based upon a set of seven major Dastgahs. The Dastgah in Persian music is similar to western musical scales and also Maqams in Turkish and Arabic music. Fuzzy logic type 2 as the basic part of our system has been used for modeling the uncertainty of tuning the scale steps of each Dastgah....