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	Mark Mordue Review
		Like a dastgah (Iranian music in which “numerous segments can be connected melodically or modally”), Mark Mordue’s Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip is an incredible blend of impressions, observations, storytelling, memoir, and poetry that chronicles his trip around the world.
		Beyond the typical travel-diary accounting of famous landmarks, museums, and tourist traps, Mordue’s recording of events reflects the big picture—daily life in whatever town or city he’s in, often within a clear geopolitical frame of reference that anchors the narrative.
		Throughout Dastgah, Mordue’s relationship with his girlfriend Lisa is like watching a shadow play, the blurred outline of their affection all the more visible because of other events happening simultaneously.
	www.absinthe-literary-review.com /book_reviews/mordue.htm (592 words)

	Dastgah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dastgah is a melody type used in Persian music, on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces.
		Each dastgah consists of seven basic notes, plus several variable notes used for ornament and modulation.
		The dastgah system is similar to the Arab use of maqam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dastgah (191 words)

	The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music - Hormoz Farhat - Cambridge University Press
		Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces.
		The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician comes to know through experience and absorption.
		In his study Professor Farhat analyses the intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations within each dastgah, and examines the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0521542065/The_Dastgah_Concept_in_Persian_Music.htm (182 words)

	Interview with Mark Mordue : interviewed by Derek Alger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dastgah is a collection of stories, poems and impressions written during a one-year odyssey that took him through India, Iran, Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
		MM: I should first of all explain that Dastgah is a collection of stories involving a journey across the world that I took with my girlfriend Lisa --through India, Nepal, Turkey and Iran, as well as London, Paris, Edinburgh and New York.
		MM: Local musicians have compared the music to an underground bazaar because a 'dastgah' is made up of a collection of pieces, or melodic fragments, an open combination of what can loosely be translated as 'streets' or 'corners'.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/221 (882 words)

	Persian art Singing, Radif, AVAZ
		A dastgah essentially comprises a progression of modally related gusheh in a manner somewhat similar to the progression of pieces in a Baroque suite.
		The number of gusheh in a dastgah varies from as few as ten in a relatively short dastgah such as Afshari, to as many as 44 or more in a dastgah such as Mahour.
		Only when the entire repertoire has been memorized—gusheh by gusheh, dastgah by dastgah a process that takes many years, are musicians considered ready to embark on creative digressions, eventually leading to improvisation itself.
	www.iran-art.de /23704.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (2301 words)

	sound garden
		Dastgah consists of two parts: Dastan and Gah-or Gat in ancient times-which means song.
		The course of the melody or tune in ancient Iranian music was one dung (sixth part of the entire pitch of an instrument - 4 continuous tunes or 3 shares) and two continuous dungs along with a complete musical note, which would complete a course.
		In each musical division or tune, a few pieces which have various forms such as Pish Daramad, Daramad, Char Mezrab, Gousheh, etc. are put together in an aesthetic manner and are presented to the listener in an improvised style which is influenced by the time of performance and its location.
	www.tanbour.org /gallery/sound.htm (974 words)

	Iranian Classical Music
		The dastgah also has its own repertory of melodies, each of which is called a gushe.
		The different gusheh are bond together by melodic fragments known as foruds, which inevitably resolve to the finalis of the dastgah.
		The initial gusheh in a dastgah is called the daramad, and it lends its name to the dastgah.
	www.iranchamber.com /music/articles/iranian_classical_music.php (1448 words)

	Lian Records
		Their individual names are: Abu Ata, Bayate Tork, Afshari, and Dashti, associated with the dastgah of Shur; and Esfahan associated with Homayun.
		Each dastgah has its own special repertory of melodies called Gusheh-ha (singular gusheh), which embody the most characteristic aspects of the dastgah.
		Nava is similar to the dastgah of Shur, starting on its fifth degree and bears a strong relation, as both tetrachords have the same configuration only their position is reversed.
	www.lianrecords.com /pgs/p_m_theory.html (694 words)

	The Savvy Traveller - Smithsonian Folkways - Classical Music of Iran: The Dastgah Systems
		Each dastgah represents a complex of skeletal melodic models on the basis of which a performer produces extemporised pieces.
		The dastgahs revolve around unspecified central nuclear melodies which the individual musician comes to know through experience and absorption.
		Ten of the twelve model melodic patterns (dastgahs) are represented here, in a variety of instrumental and vocal performances.
	www.thesavvytraveller.com /insights/series/smithsonian/folkways/iran_classical_music.htm (151 words)

	Rhythmic Forms of Persian Art Music
		Dastgah: Dastgah is the most important structural element of radif, and formed by combination of various gushehs with their own melody-lines and varied rhythmic patterns.
		Usually a Dastgah consists of several gushehs of witch the first gusheh is of special importance and named daramad.
		This return to the first tetra-chord of the Dastgah is called forud that literally it means landing.
	www.rhythmweb.com /persia/forms.htm (807 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Many of the current names of the modes used in Iranian Classical Music, "Dastgahs," have survived from that time by an oral tradition, though many of the modes and melodies have disappeared, probably because of Arab invaders who viewed music as immoral behavior.
		The vocalist plays a crucial role: she or he decides what mood to express and which Dastgah relates to that mood.
		The group of musicians and the vocalist decide on which Dastgahs and which of their gushehs to perform, depending on the mood of a certain time or situation.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Persian_music (1262 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places across the world and inside yourself.
		In order to play a dastgah with fellow musicians, an entire "map" must be memorized.
		How you then play a dastgah is entirely up to you.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0971691568 (477 words)

	VIBE.com: Music Search
		It is a thrilling job for a drummer, since this modally based music is similar to the Indian raga not only in their use on systems of scales and modes to form the compositions, but in the build-up of rhythmic speed and intensity.
		Performances of a dastgah piece inevitably end in a near frenzy of instrumental virtuosity, the melodic instruments firing phrases back and forth at the drummers as if competing in a linguistics match.
		As far as artillery goes, Ali Fatemi and his brethren come well-prepared, since the dombak or tombak, to mention just two of many names for this basic drum design concept, is both loud and flexible of tone.
	www.vibe.com /music/search/artist.html?id=UCAgIDI0MTMyMg== (222 words)

	The Dastgah System and the Radif of Persian Classical Music
		As a result, during the Qajar dynasty, the old modes and mayehs were restructured and the dastgah system was developed.
		in a dastgah is called the daramad, and it lends its name to the dastgah.
		The note, upon which the gousheh is based and often is the center of the gousheh, is called the shahead.
	www.kayvansaket.com /Dastgah.htm (533 words)

	Iran - music - persian music - radif
		The classical music of Iran is based on the Radif, which is a collection of old melodies that have been handed down by the masters to the students through the generations.
		A dastgah may contain approximately from 10 to 30 gousheh's (melodies).
		The name of the different dastgah's in the Radif are on the left list, click on each dastgah to see gushehs and maghaams.
	www.dejkam.com /music/iran_traditional/about (301 words)

	آموزش موسیقی
		The main element of the Radif consists of the modes of each Dastgah and the sequence of the Goushehs and Avazes.
		Modal changes appear in performing each Dastgah and return to the initial modes is other characteristics of each Dastgah.
		Except Daramad which is the introducer of the main mode in each Dastgah, all of the existing forms in Persian music are performable in other Dastgahs and Gushes.
	www.artpars.com /Book1_theory.htm (2624 words)

	sound garden
		A dastgah may contain approximately from 10 to 30 gousheh's (melodies).
		Dastgah consists of two parts: Dastan and Gah-or Gat in ancient times-which means song.
		In each musical division or tune, a few pieces which have various forms such as Pish Daramad, Daramad, Char Mezrab, Gousheh, etc. are put together in an aesthetic manner and are presented to the listener in an improvised style which is influenced by the time of performance and its location.
	tanbour.org /gallery/sound.htm (974 words)

	Dastgah
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	Etymological Correlation of dastgAh and dastAn
		As it is mentioned, pardah (bardah) was used instead of maqam in a treatise after the Islamic invasion of Iran and Central Asian regions, (see Dzhumajev's article on "From Parde to maqam: the problem of the origin of the regional system").
		Philologically, the conception of both terms are clearly the same, although the implication of dastgah is collective.
		In spite of the newfangled term of dastgah, the replacement of dastAn into a collective organization such as dastgah has happened gradually, parallel to the time of the disappearance of term dastAn.
	www.shayda.net /Dastan.html (1577 words)

	Persian Music History
		The remaining five are commonly accepted as secondary or derivative Dastgahs.
		However, in every dastgah, there are a number of metrically regulated gushes which are played among the free meter pieces in order to provide periodic variety in rhythmic effects.
		Both, double and triple meters are common; asymmetric meters, found in the folk music of certain regions, are rare in the classical music.
	www.persianartmusic.com /history_english.html (1262 words)

	Iranian-Americans in Iowa
		Persian music is embodied in a large number of melodies and tunes (mayeh's) carrying their own sets of notes that have come down the pike of history from masters to pupils by oral tradition.
		Each dastgah is thought to be conducive of a specific mood and carries with it a specific set of notes embedded in its main mayeh.
		Prior to playing each dastgah, a maestro has to rely on his innate memory to kook (tune) his instrument properly for the new dastgah.by playing a snippet of its main mayeh while also tweaking the strings until it sounds right.
	iowairan.com /music (736 words)

	Persian Classical Music
		Pishdaramad was invented by a great master of the tar, Darvish Khan, and was inteded as a prelude to the daramad of a dastgah.
		Cheharmezrab is a solo piece, mostly with a fast tempo, and is usually based on the melody immediately preceding it.
		The third instrumental form is the reng, which is a simple dance piece that is usually played at the conclusion of the dastgah.
	www.duke.edu /~azomorod/persian2.html (695 words)

	Dastgah2 Persian Art Music
		Dastgah Shour, Radif of master Saba; Dastgah Shour, Radif of Maroufi; Dastgah Mahour, Radif of Agha Hussein Gholi Farahani” (Caron and Safvat, 1966: 116).
		It is likely that initially, most of the musicians boasted only isolated gushes, short suites of gushes and fragments of Dastgahs.
		The Dastgah Chahargah scores have been lost but this Radif was recorded sixty years later by ‘Au Akbar Shahnazi, Hussein Gholi’s son.
	www.persianartmusic.com /dastgah2.html (1133 words)

	The Dastgah System
		are bond together by melodic fragments known as foruds, which inevitably resolve to the finalis of the dastgah.
		in a dastgah is called the daramad, and it lends its name to the dastgah.
		This example demonstrates the way in which a typical performer treats the formulae that are part of the dastgah.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/music/Worldmusic/persian/dastgah/Dastgah.htm (676 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Dastgah Concept in Persian Music, The
		In traditional Persian art music embodies twelve dastgahs consisting of skeletal melodic models that form the musical "vocabulary" from which performers produce extemporized pieces.
		Hormoz Farhat unravels the dastgahs' art, analyzing their intervalic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and imp
		In his study Professor Farhat analyses the intervallic structure, melodic patterns, modulations, and improvisations within each dastgah, and examines the composed pieces which have become a part of the classical repertoire in recent times.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0521542065 (251 words)

	Iranian Classical Music
		Each avaz is derived from a specific dastgah, but it is also able to stand by itself.
		The modes are: Avaz Bayat-e Esfahan (Tala'i), Dastgah Chahargah (Tala'i), Dastgah Homayun (Musavi), Avaz Bayat-e Kord (Kiani).
		Hossein Omoumi is a student of Hassan Kassai, and has gone on to make some technical improvements to the ney as well as to innovate new gushe-s (while retaining a thoroughly classical stance); these technical changes make his ney sound more mellow than that of the older masters.
	www.internetserver.com /~beigi/music/review.html (2091 words)

	Masters of Persian Music
		The number of gushehs in a dastgah varies from as few as five in a relatively short dastgah such as Dashti, to as many as forty-four or more in a dastgah such as Mahur.
		Only when the entire repertoire has been memorised - gusheh by gusheh, dastgah by dastgah - a process which takes many years, are musicians considered ready to embark on creative digressions, eventually leading to improvisation itself.
		A performance of Persian classical music is usually based in one of the twelve dastgah (although there is a technique known as morakkab navazi by which musicians can move between different dastgah using shared gushehs as "bridges").
	www.class.uidaho.edu /concerts/2005/persian_program.html (3142 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Dastgah
		"Classical Music of Iran: The Dastgah Systems" (produced by Smithsonian Folkways in 1991) has stunning performances by some of Iran's finest musicians.
		Recorded before 1979 Iranian Revolution that drove many performers into exile, this represents some of the best Iranian classical music.
		It includes recordings of ten of the twelve dastgah, or tone sets performed on tar, santour, drum, flute, violin and voice.
	www.iranian.com /Music/Classical/index.html (83 words)

	World Music Central - Classical Persian Music
		The history of Persian music in the twentieth century has seen the development of strategies for survival in the face of Western music, and these strategies often involved borrowing from those elements in which Western music is strong.
		It consists of five parts, all cast in one dastgah, but, in fact, not all of them need appear and it is quite common to hear one or two of them used alone.
		Asadi, Hooman."Towards the Formation of the Dastgah Concept: A Study in the History of Persian Music," The 5th Meeting of the Study Group Maqam of the ICTM.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030414200427528 (1151 words)

	Dastgah1 Persian Art Music
		Important elements of the Iranian system had also been adopted in “Harat” (Afghanistan) where, as little as fifty years ago, musicians were singing sonnets Ghazal in Iranian modes (Dastgah) and gousheh, accompanied by the Tar (Baily, 1988:19).
		In some cases the name given is that of a poem sung (Leyli Majnoun...) in other cases, the name was only an indication of the form or the genre (Daramad: introduction, Foroud: conclusion, Naghmeh: song).
		Eventually this great collection of melodic types (gousheh) was classified according to their modal affinities into 12 modal systems: 7 Dastgahs and 5 derived avazs.
	www.persianartmusic.com /dastgah1.html (1430 words)

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