MUSC 2270 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bruno Nettl, Conditionality, Double Harmonic Scale

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSC 2270
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Santoor a wooden instrument with strings attached stretched out from one side to the other with pegs and tuning nobs. Rather than the strings being plucked, the instrumentalist will hit the strings with small curved sticks (like hammers) to produce the music. Chahar mezrab means four picks or four hammers . This is possibly because it is so fast that it sounds as if there are four hands taking part in the instrument. The chahar mezrab is a virtuosic composed, metric solo piece of persian classical music. When musical pieces are inclusive of the reading of the qur"an they are always recited. This allows the text to be the most important element of the piece and enables the audience to focus on the lyrics. The piece is performed without instruments and uses many breaks in order to highlight each phrase. Performed by a. jihad racy on bouzouq and nei.