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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Persian Music"”.
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Becoming Persian Music: A Poststructuralist Approach to Composition
… compositional methodologies grounded in Persian musical and linguistic traditions. It undertakes this inquiry within the encompassing ambit of an interdisciplinary framework, intertwining (ethno)musicology, conceptual history, music theory, sociopolitical thought, semiotics, linguistics, …
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The Persian ney: A study of the instrument and its musical style
… Haftband is the only wind tradition in classical Persian music, the lack of attention paid to it in previous scholarly studies is rather surprising. This dissertation is a study of the Persian ney and its music as it emerged in the city of Esfehan during the nineteenth century.
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Exploring microtonal tunings: A kaleidoscope of extended just tunings and their compositional applications. (Volumes I and II)
… tonal resources, from pure major scales to Asian music to complex tunings; the resources for performing extended just intonation range from flexibly-pitched traditional instruments to specially-built acoustic instruments to computer programs. This work describes ways to begin working in microtonal …
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Automatic recognition of Persian musical modes in audio musical signals
… approaches for computational identification of Persian musical modes. This involves constructing a database of audio musical files and developing computer algorithms to perform a musical analysis of the samples. Essential features, the spectral average, chroma, and pitch histograms, and the use …
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Music Making in Iran: Developments Between the Sixteenth and Late Nineteenth Centuries
… draws on a variety of sources including musical treatises, song-text collections, court chronicles, travel accounts, biographies, paintings, nineteenth-century albums of photographs and the early Persian 78 rpm records.</p> <p>The first chapter provides a background on the role of …
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Extracting Theory from Practice: A Computational Analysis of the Persian Radif
… studies radif, the repertoire/system of Persian classical music, by developing a framework for computational research on vocal music performance. The radif consists of seven dastgāhs and five āvāzes (secondary dastgāhs). Each dastgāh consists of several pieces (gushes). Throughout …