Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective
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Greater Analytical Profundity
Hasan Nahed
indigenous analytical frameworks
Instrumental Interjections
Instrumental Radif
Iranian musicology
Kiaras
Melodic Density
Music
music and poetry relationship
Nasir Al Din Shah
Palindromic Symmetry
performance structure analysis
Persian
Persian Classical Music
Persian Music
Persian vocal repertoire study
Perspective
Pre-Composed Pieces
Radif Material
Radif Tradition
Rhythmic Cycles
Shiraz Festival
Specific Stroke Qualities
Sultan Mahmut II
Tahrir Elements
Touraj
Touraj Kiaras
twentieth-century music evolution
Verse Setting
vocal ornamentation
Vocal Radif
Western Style Oil Painting
Product details
- ISBN 9780754663287
- Weight: 462g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The format of the recording is typical of a public concert performance, and thus includes instrumental compositions as well as a central exploration of vocal repertoire and technique. The analysis identifies salient structural features, whether of the individual components or of the whole, in a way accessible to the western reader, but it also takes account of the analytical metalanguage used in Persian scholarship, and includes consideration of the relationship between music and poetry. It is important to note that it is also guided by the perceptions of the performer, whose input and responses to questions have significantly influenced the enterprise. To avoid the dryly impersonal, the analysis is also framed by an introduction which combines a biographical sketch of Touraj Kiaras with a survey of the twentieth-century evolution of Persian classical music and of the position of the vocal repertoire within it, and by an epilogue which examines further the ideological basis of prevalent attitudes to music, and seeks to explore the validity of the analytical enterprise within this context.
Owen Wright is Research Professor of Musicology of the Middle East in the Department of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
