he purpose of the article is to exhibit this fact that embellishments, despite of their lexical meaning, do not play just an ornamental role in iranian classical music, but they have an extremely important function to form the structural facets of dastgahi music; in fact, the embellishments are irremovable elements in the mentioned musical system. first of all, some brief explanations about con...

in this article, according to the 5 transcriptions of iranian vocal masters, we try to observe some of various functions of tahrir in iranian classical music with comparative - analytic method and schenkerian analysis. the goal of usage schenkerian analysis is to interpret the underlying structure of tahrirs by showing hierarchical relationships among tones, and also drawing the graphs  of redu...

background: the present study examines the effects of iranian traditional music and western classical music during 20 min of pedaling on an ergometer, along with the normal factors of profile of mood states and rate of perceived exertion. methods: seventeen non-athlete participants (11 men and six women) with a mean age of 26±1.5 cycled in three conditions: exposure to iranian traditional music...

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...

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...

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...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

ambits of tones (as one of the most important elements of mode structure) in old iranian music have multiple kinds and definitions. middle eastern musicologists have always tried to explain and devise tones ambits, because ambits of tones and structure of mode are irrefrangible. generally purpose of division of ambits to their components is explanation of melodic modules and their combination. ...