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Music Theory in the Safavid Era - The taqsim al-nagamat (Paperback)
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Music Theory in the Safavid Era - The taqsim al-nagamat (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the
history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its
architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently
represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a
sophisticated tradition of music making that was an integral part
of court life, yet it is one that remains little known, for the
musicological literature of the period is rather thin. There is,
however, a significant exception: the text presented and analysed
here, a hitherto unpublished and anonymous theoretical work
probably of the middle of the sixteenth century. With a Sufi
background inspiring the use of the nay as a tool of theoretical
demonstration, it is exceptional in presenting descriptive accounts
of the modes then in use and suggesting how these might be arranged
in complex sequences. As it also gives an account of the corpus of
rhythmic cycles it provides a unique insight into the basic
structures of art-music during the first century of Safavid rule.
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