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Persia Spring Performanace 2017-2018, 2017-2018.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- WMIC
- World Musical Instruments Collection: Music of Persia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music.
- Genre:
- Internet videos.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- online resource (video file).
- Place of Publication:
- 2017-2018,
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
- Summary:
- The Persian Music Ensemble performs the classical music of Iran, focusing mainly on the repertoire of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. A large portion of this repertoire was cultivated in the Qajar court by prominent court musicians. This concert includes performances of two dastgahs of mahur and shur (multi-sectional modal structures) in a traditional format. Each dastgah contains a series of free-rhythmic melody-types, or gushehs, combined with vocal and instrumental compositions including pishdaramad, chaharmezrab, reng and tasnif. Pishdaramad: instrumental composition that is usually played as a prelude to a dastgah. It emerged in the early 20th century and is in slow duple or quadruple meters.Chaharmezrab: solo instrumental piece (improvised or composed) with a specific rhythmic articulation that contains a ritornello section. Reng: instrumental dance tune, always in 6/8 or 6/16 meter. Tasnif: vocal composition usually in a six-beat cycle.
- Notes:
- Archive Reference: WMIC.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on 25 September, 2019).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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