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Regional music from Iran, Kurdish and Persian music |
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Iran is a country with an amazing cultural, ethnic and musical diversity from North to South and East to West. Whether you listen to the Turkmen songs so close to the Central Asian music, to the African rhythms of the Persian Gulf, to the music of Sistan and Baloutchistan, which is so similar to Afghanis and Pakistanis music, or to the folk and mystic music of the Kurdish Sufis, all these musics have something in common: They are all well alive, and they all play an important social part in the life of these people.
Kurdistan stretches over Iraq, Turkey and Iran but the music of the Iranian Kurdistan is significantly different from that of the other two regions. Whether it is music to dance, to rejoice, to mourn or mystic music, it reflects a tradition which is still alive. This music comes from a pure Kurdish ancestral tradition but it is also inspired by the other Iranian regional music. This modal music is also very much an oral tradition music.
Persian traditional music has a vast and complex repertoire. The sources of its inspiration are folk and popular music from different regions of Iran. Its melismatic horizontality and elegant ornaments probably make this music the quintessence of all these regional musics. Based on modalities (Dastgah) with specific characters, some precise rules allow the passage between different melodies. This music is kept alive and orally transmitted by “Masters” who preserve this tradition.
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