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Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian musical instruments spread in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East , Caucasus , Central Asia and through adaptation, relations, and trade, in Europe and far regions of Asia .
Pages in category "Iranian musical instruments" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Each dastgāh consists of seven basic notes, plus several variable notes used for ornamentation and modulation.Each dastgāh is a certain modal variety subject to a course of development (sayr) that is determined by the pre-established order of sequences, and revolves around 365 central core melodies known as gusheh s (each of these melodies being a gusheh), which musicians come to know ...
Some instruments, such as the sorna, neyanban, dohol, and naqare, are usually not used in the classical repertoire, but are used in the folk music. Up until the middle of the Safavid Empire, the chang was an important part of Iranian music. It was then replaced by the qanun , and later by the western piano. The tar functions as the primary ...
In modern times it has transitioned from being a solo instrument used purely to accompany a singer to an ensemble instrument as well as for performing purely instrumental numbers. [6] The Smithsonian Institution describes the Turkmen dutar as a "two string fretted lute turned to the interval of a fourth" made of apricot, mulberry, and walnut ...
The modern Iranian instrument's name سهتار setâr is a combination of سه se —meaning "three"—and تار târ —meaning "string", therefore the word gives the meaning of "three-stringed" or "tri-stringed". In spite of the instrument's name implying it should have three strings, the modern instrument actually has four strings.
Kamancheh. The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (Persian: کمانچه, Azerbaijani: kamança, Armenian: քամանչա, Kurdish: کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, [1] Azerbaijani, [2] Armenian, [3] Kurdish, [4] Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument.
The instrument was mainly played in outdoors in regional music of Iran in the festive ceremonies (the Persian poet Molana Rumi mentioned the sorna and dohol in his poems). The Achaemenid sorna was a large trumpet-like instrument, but in later dates was reduced in size, and became more like ( shrill oboe ), or dozale (double oboe), which is ...