Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

/Persian

traditional music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...

(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. Each of these seven modes, referred to as ''Dastgāh'', are then classified into smaller units (usually only one), each called an ''āvāz''. Every ''āvāz'' consists of short pieces and melodies of music called the ''

gousheh Dastgāh ( fa, دستگاه) 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 consists of a collection of musical melodies, . In a so ...

'' that, although each has its own characteristics, share one central characteristic in the ''āvāz''. The seven main ''Dastgāh'' of Iranian music are modernly known as ''Shour'', ''Māhour'', ''Homāyoun'', ''Segāh'', ''Chāhārgāh'', ''Rāstpanjgāh'', and ''Navā''. Each of these seven is considered to be its own ''āvāz''. Yet, ''Dastgāh-e Shour'' also contains the four ''āvāz-e Abou'atā'', ''āvāz-e Bayāt-e-Tork'', ''āvāz-e Afshāri'', and ''āvāz-e Dashti'' along with its own ''āvāz-e Shour''. Similarly, ''Dastgāh-e Homāyoun'' contains both ''āvāz-e Homāyoun'' and ''āvāz-e Esfahān''. ''Shour'' is mainly considered the mother of all ''Dastgāh''. The classification is as below: #

Dastgāh-e Šur Dastgāh-e Šur ( fa, دستگاه شور; az, Şur) is one of the seven ''Dastgāh''s of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven ''Dastgāhs'' and five '' Āvāz''es, however from a merely technical point of view, one c ...

(mother of all Dastgāh) #*Āvāz-e Dashti #*Āvāz-e Abou'atā #* Āvāz-e Bayāt-e Tork #* Āvāz-e Bayāt-e Kord #* Āvāz-e Afshāri #Dastgāh-e Homāyoun #* Āvāz-e Bayāt-e Esfahān #Dastgāh-e Segāh (''third place'') #Dastgāh-e Chāhārgāh (''fourth place'') #Dastgāh-e Rāstpanjgāh (''fifth place'') #

Dastgāh-e Māhur Dastgāh-e Māhūr or Dastgaah-e Maahur ( fa, دستگاه ماهور) is one of the seven ''Dastgāh''s of Persian Music (Classically, Persian Music is organized into seven ''Dastgāhs'' and five '' Āvāz''es, however from a merely technical poi ...

#Dastgāh-e Navā A complete book in Iranian traditional music is called the ''

radif Radif ( fa, ردیف, meaning ''order'') is a rule in Persian, Turkic, and Urdu poetry which states that, in the form of poetry known as a ghazal, the second line of all the couplets (''s'' or ''shers'') ''must'' end with the ''same'' word/s. Th ...

'', which consists of all seven ''Dastgāh''. Such a ''radif'' would traditionally be written by the master, the ''ostād'', and then played, learned, and thoroughly memorized by the apprentice before he could become a master. Each ''radif'' consists of approximately 200–400 ''gousheh''.

References

*Lashgari, Manouchehr. Radif of Iranian Music. Chang Publications, 2003, p. 3. Iranian music