Mohammad-Reza Darvishi ( fa, محمدرضا درویشی; born 17 October 1955 in

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

) is an Iranian musician, researcher, and author of '' Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran'', a Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize-winner book about

Iranian musical instruments 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, ...

Works

Music

Film music

A selection of M. R. Darvishi's film scores * 2012 Parinaz * 2009 Mizak (meaning: My mother) * 2009

The White Meadows ''The White Meadows'' ( fa, کشتزارهای سپید, Keshtzarhaye sepid) is a 2009 Iranian film written, directed and produced by Mohammad Rasoulof. The film was edited by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi and stars Hassan Pourshirazi as Rahmat. ...

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Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: Keshtzārhā-ye sepid) * 2009 When we are all Asleep (

: Vaqti hame xābim) * 2008 The green fire (

: Ātash-e sabz) * 2008 Lady of the Roses (documentary) * 2006

Crossing the Dust ''Crossing the Dust'' (Kurdish: ) is a 2006 film directed by the Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki. Plot During the fall of Saddam in 2003, two Kurds, Azad and Rashid are looking for the parents of an Arab boy named Saddam. At the same time t ...

* 2006 Slowly... (

: Be ahestegi...) * 2006 The Talking Carpet (

: Qali-e soxangu) (documentary short) * 2004 Stray Dogs * 2003 Joy of Madness (documentary) * 2003 Two Angels * 2003 Osama * 2003

At Five in the Afternoon ''At Five in the Afternoon'' ( fa, پنج عصر, Panj é asr) is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf. It tells the story of an ambitious young woman trying to gain an education in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban. ...

* 2002 11'09"01 September 11(segment "Iran") * 2002 The Afghan Alphabeth (

: Alefba-ye Afqān) (documentary) * 2001

Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the c ...

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: Safar-e Qandehār) * 2001 The Unfinished Song * 2000

The Day I Became a Woman ''The Day I Became a Woman'' ( fa, italic=yes, Roozi ke zan shodam, ) is a 2000 award-winning Iranian drama film directed by Marzieh Meshkini. It tells three stories, each depicting a different stage in the lives of Iranian women. It premièred at ...

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: Ruzi ke zan shodam) * 2000

Blackboards ''Blackboards'' ( fa, تخته سیاه, ''Takhté siah'') is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq W ...

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: Taxt-e siyāh) * 1998 A Bag of Rice (

: Kise-ye berenj)

Music for theatre plays

* 2003 ''Shab-e hezār-o-yekom'' (The One Thousand and First Night) * 2004 ''Afrā yā Ruz migozarad'' ( Afra, or the day passes) * 2005 ''Majles-e shabih. Dar zekr-e masāyeb-e ostād Navid Mākān va hamsarash mohandes-e Roxshid-e Farzin'' (Mourning Play. About the Sufferings of Professor Navid Makan and his Wife, architect Rokhshid Farzin)

Tapes and CDs

Some of his Cassettes and CDs are: * In the memory of Eqbāl ( Prelude for

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

). Tehrān: Harp, 1984 * Morning Melody (Trio for 2

clarinets The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. ...

and piano). Tehrān: Arvin, 1997 * Abdolqāder Marāqi, Shouqnāme * Mazandarani Music, for song and orchestra, song by Abolhassan Khoshroo and Nourolah Alizadeh, 1983 * Winter, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Shahram Nazeri * The season of flower, for song and symphonic orchestra, song by Iraj Bastami * The aster dome, for song and orchestra, sung by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan (a joint work with Parviz Meshkatian) * The soul of the lovers, for song and orchestra, sung by Mohammad Reza Shajariyan (a joint work with Parviz Meshkatian) * Music album of seven thrones (A collection of 4 cassettes from the music of Iran regions along with the book) * Music album of north of Khorasan (A collection of 3 cassettes from the music of north of Khorasan along with the book) * Mirror and song, music album (A collection of 28 cassettes with the melody and religious music from various regions of Iran with the book) * Bag of rice: Music from the movies: “Bag of rice”, “The song of the Nimvar Field” and “Karde”, 1999 * Music from the movies: “The Blackboard” & “The day I became a woman”, 2001 * Zaman = Era, 2019

Selected bibliography

* (1984) Bist tarāne-ye mahalli-ye Fārs (Twenty traditional songs from Fars). Tehrān: Harp; later: Mahoor: 1994 * (1991) Haft ourang (Seven throne - a collection of articles on regional music of Iran). Tehrān: Art Center * (1994) Negāh be qarb : bahsi dar ta'sir-e musiqi-ye Qarb bar musiqi-ye Irān (Westward look : a discussion on the impact of Western music on the (sic) Iranian music : an analytical survey). Tehrān: Māhoor * (1994) Sonnat va bigānegi-ye farhang dar musiqi-ye Irān (Tradition and cultural alienation in music of Iran). Tehran: Māhur * (1994) Moqaddamei bar shenāxt-e musiqi-ye navāhi-ye Irān. Daftar-e naxost: Manāteq-e jonub ( Hormozgān, Khuzestān) (An introduction presentation of regional music from Irān. First book: Hormozgan, Boushehr, Khouzestan). Tehrān: Māhur * (1994) Dar bāre-ye honar va adabiyāt (About art and literature; Mohammad Reza Darvishi in conversation with Naser Hariri). Tehrān: Āvishan, Gouharzād * (1997) Nourouzxāni (

Norouz Nowruz ( fa, نوروز, ; ), zh, 诺鲁孜节, ug, نەۋروز, ka, ნოვრუზ, ku, Newroz, he, נורוז, kk, Наурыз, ky, Нооруз, mn, Наурыз, ur, نوروز, tg, Наврӯз, tr, Nevruz, tk, Nowruz, ...

Singing - Songs for Nouruz and

Spring Spring(s) may refer to: Common uses * Spring (season) Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of ...

from various regions of Iran). Tehrān: Arvin, 62 p. * (1998) Āiine va āvāz (Mirror and awaz singing; a collection of articles about the traditional music of Iran from various regions). Tehrān: Art Center * (1999) Musiqi va xalse : zekrhā-ye marāsem-e Gowāti-ye Baluchestān (Music and Trance: The Govati ceremony citations of

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). Tehrān: Māhour, 55 p. * (2001) Az miyān-e sorudhā va sokuthā : gozide-ye neweshtār wa goftār-e... (From among song and silence : a selection from the writings and lectures of...). Tehrān: Māhur, 296 p. * (2001) Dāyerat’ol-ma’āref-e sāzhā-ye Irān. Jeld 1: Sāzhā-ye zehi-ye mezrābi va ārshei-ye navāhi-ye Irān = Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran. Vol. 1. Chordophones in Regional Music. Tehrān: Māhoor * (2005) Dāyerat’ol-ma’āref-e sāzhā-ye Irān. Jeld 2: Pustsedāhā va xodsedāhā-ye navāhi-ye Irān = Encyclopedia of the Musical Instruments of Iran. Vol. 2. Membranophones and Idiophones of Regional Music. Tehrān: Māhoor * (2009) Sāzshenāsi-ye irāni (Acquaintance with Iranian musical instruments). Tehān, 256 p. - together with Arfa' Atrāii * Goftegu bā Mohammad Rezā Darvishi dar bāre-ye musiqi-ye Irān (Conversation with Mohammad Reza Darvishi about Iranian music) * Jāmedarān : selsele-ye mu-ye dust * Leyli kojāst : ta'amolāt-e kutāh wa parākande dar musiqi va farhang (Where is Leyli : Brief and dispersed reflections on music and culture) * Musiqi-ye hamāsi-ye Irān : gozide-ye maqālāt (Epic music of Iran : selected articles). (ed.) * Mousum-Gol

Awards

* October 2002 - SEM’s (

Society for Ethnomusicology The Society for Ethnomusicology is, with the International Council for Traditional Music and thBritish Forum for Ethnomusicology one of three major international associations for ethnomusicology. Its mission is "to promote the research, study, an ...

) award for the best publication of the year on musical instruments, granted by Bruno Nettl, for The Encyclopaedia of the Iranina Musical Instruments, vol.1 * 2000, The music for '' Kandahar (2001 film)'' (directed by

Mohsen Makhmalbaf Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 1 ...

) was nominated the best foreign film music, among the others, by Bonn biennial festival of film music, Germany. * 2005, Nomination for achievement of

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

’s award for the greatest musician worldwide.

Films about Darvishi

* ''Leyli kojast'', directed by Mohammad Shirvani, a documentary about Darvishi’s professional career on the occasion of his 2005 nomination for the

’s award for the greatest musician worldwide.

References

External links

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An extended interview with M.R. Darvishi, his biography, music samples, scores etc., in Persian (artebox.ir)
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