MUSC 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Taqsim, Dastgah, Emo
7 Feb 2017
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4:05 pm: tasnif: composed instrumental piece usually as a group, taqsim: solo instrumental performance (sometimes accompanied by percussion), in some sort of free rhythm, improvised, avaz: improvised either instrumental or vocal (sometimes accompanied by percussion, setar. Played in relaxed settings: radif: persia (iran) Small melody"s that can last from 4 seconds to 4 minutes. 300-350 gushe"s that make up the whole radif system. Daramads: special gushe"s to begin the piece. Specific melody that brings you into the filing system. Shur: about 20-30 gushes for each dastgah, first daramad, maqam: place where you are playing (geography, place that it represents, religious or emo significance) Based on compositions but not as strict as the radif. Once learned, you improvise on these compositions. : rast, bayati, nahawand (denote the distance between each note, how many m tones are in between each note) Hijaz (used in western music to hint that it is a middle eastern scence), hijaz k.
