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Repertoire of melodies and scales used to improvise in a particular mode.

[not used as a performance piece]
Dasgah

Mode

Has a particular scale, mood, patterns of notes associated with the mode.
khandan

Spiritual “music”

ex: Chanting the Koran

Non-metric

Unaccompanied

Improvised
Musiqi

Secular song

 

Metered

Uses instruments

Not necessarily improvised

Undesirable to “traditionalists”
Santour

Hammer dulcimer

struck chordophone used in India and Middle East
Oud

Lute/Chordophone

Found in Arabic music

from Europe – popular during the Rennaisance
Tar

Plucked lute from Iran

 

Double bowl body

4 strings

Adjustable frets
Chahar Mezrab

“Four hammers”

 

Very fast repeated melodic phrase with regular beat
Avaz

Unmetered

improvised

vocal or instrumental song
Tasnif

metered

composed song with words

vocal or instrumental

 
Raga

Indian melodic modes

 

based on time of day, painting

 

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