Classical Music
Iranian classical music connects learned repertoires with interpretation. Instruments and modal relationships shape performance without reducing it to fixed notation.
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Dastgah Music
Dastgah organizes melodic relationships in classical practice. Performance develops through learned conventions and individual interpretation.
Read the introductionFIELD NOTERadif
Radif is an inherited melodic repertoire. Musicians study it as a basis for performance and improvisation.
Read the introductionFIELD NOTETar & Setar
Tar and setar are plucked string instruments. Their construction produces different tonal characters.
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Santur is a hammered string instrument. Small mallets bring its resonant surface into sound.
Read the introductionFIELD NOTEKamancheh
Kamancheh is a bowed string instrument. Bowing and ornament shape its expressive possibilities.
Read the introductionFIELD NOTETombak
Tombak is a goblet-shaped drum. Hand techniques create a varied rhythmic vocabulary.
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