the historical background of the dastgāh concept, and the process through which it replaced the maqām system, still remains a major question in the history of persian music. it is usually vaguely assumed that both concepts of the dastgāh and the radīf were introduced to persian music during the qajar era. the present paper is a first attempt to shed light on the issue through a historical music...

The library of the University Barcelona houses an interesting collection music to which little attention has been paid. With documentary collections from ecclesiastical confiscation nineteenth century, it brings together all kinds works, most come Barcelonian convent libraries that have now disappeared, especially rich in those sixteenth centuries. Represented here are manuscripts (from medieva...

one of the fields of creation and practice expansion is an attempt to diversify and multiply melodic modules which can increase practical potentials in a musical system. the most fundamental element of a sonic- musical atmosphere (mode) is ambits of tone; in other words, it is a sequence of tones with specific frequency. therefore, melodic modules combination depends on acoustical features and ...

the logical treatise al-muhja has been attributed to avicenna in some bibliographies of logical treatises. since a proper understanding of the development of avicennian logic rests on the identification and consideration of the entire corpus of his logical works, the task of the present study is to investigate the validity of ascription of this treatise to avicenna. in carrying out an analysis ...

works of the most prominent authors such as: Zarrindast, Isma'fl Djurdjanr, MansUr b. Muhammad b. Ahmad, Hadji Zain al-Attar, and Muhammad Arzani. Appreciating this, Richter-Bernburg puts an intense effort into the analysis of the content of each manuscript, which, unusually for collections of Persian manuscripts, is not overshadowed by the beauty of the miniatures and illustrations. This enhan...

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...

Mashadi Haji Majid oghlu Azer (1870–1951) was born in the village Buzovna, Baku, family of merchant. Those periods very difficult, and obliged to help his family. His father a merchant, after finishing from mollakhana, he had got trade father's shops, sometimes joined did trades trips, mainly East. Journey with camel caravans Arab countries, Hindu Muslims, Iran, Anatolia East, led formation dev...