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Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, [1] [2] [3] refers to the classical music of Iran (historically known as Persia). It consists of characteristics developed through the country's classical, medieval, and contemporary eras.
Iranian folk music refers to the folk music transmitted through generations among the people of Iran, often consisting of tunes that exist in numerous variants. The variance of the folk music of Iran has often been stressed, in accordance to the cultural diversity of the country's ethnic and regional groups . [ 1 ]
Later, the arrival of new western influences, such as the use of the guitar and other western instruments, marked a turning point in Iran's popular music by the 1950s. [18] Iranian pop music is commonly performed by vocalists who are accompanied with elaborate ensembles, often using a combination of both indigenous Iranian and European instruments.
Iranian/Persian traditional music (also known as mūsīqī-e sonnatī-e īrānī or mūsīqī-e aṣīl-e īrānī) is now modernly classified into the Dastgāh system. This system is a modal system, in the fact that it utilizes distinct modes of music, in this case seven.
Dastgāh (/ d æ s t ˈ ɡ ɑː /; Persian: دستگاه, Classical: [dastˈɡɑːh], Iran: [dæstˈɡɒː(h)]) is the standard musical system in Persian art music, standardised in the 19th century following the transition of Persian music from the Maqam modal system. A dastgāh consists of a collection of musical melodies, gushehs.
Dastgāh-e Šur (Persian: دستگاه شور; Azerbaijani: Şur) is one of the seven Dastgāhs of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven Dastgāhs and five Āvāzes, however from a merely technical point of view, one can consider them as an ensemble of 12 Dastgāhs).
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi playing tar in a concert. Mohammad-Reza Lotfi died on 2 May 2014 (age of 67) suffering from prostate cancer.According to Hamid Dabashi, Lotfi's death marked "a crucial turning point in the history of classical Persian music and its spectacular rise and fall as a performing public art."
The term Persian music has been equated with Persian traditional, Iranian traditional, Persian classical and Iranian classical music (Persian music).A distinction is made however between traditional and classical (regardless of whether Iranian or Persian) musical genres.