Translated by Shahab Jafari, the book has been published by Nay o Ney Music Book Publisher in 466 pages, ILNA reported. “The History of Musical Instruments” is an unabridged republication of the 1940 ...

Entitled “Come and Play Tar and Setar”, the book will be released by the Chang Publications in near future in Tehran. “This is the first time that a book on Persian musical instrument is published in ...

"Persian music is based on improvisation," he says ... discussing the evolution and influence of the instrument, which is at least 1,500 years old. Also known as an oud, the barbat was imported ...

Shahsar is the “master of Persian music,” said Pedaya of the Iranian ... Shemesh drew out piano-like notes from the santur, a biblical-era instrument that is played with slim metal hammers ...

Similarly, the sitar, which evolved from Persian stringed instruments, owes its structure and style to his innovations. Amir Khusrau’s contributions to hindustani classical music shaped its very ...

“My family had a lot of recordings of my grandfather singing Persian classical music, because that’s what he was famous for,” Dardashti explains. But of all the recordings of their ...

the star said he'd had "a hell of a lot of fun" immersing himself in Persian music. "I loved how a lot of rhythms, scales, melodies and instruments were different but similar to the Irish trad ...