Definitions
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- noun One of the basic
melody types intraditional Persian music, each consisting of seven base notes and seven furthervariable notes used forornamentation andmodulation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The group plays music governed by a form called a dastgah that provides a sort of seed motif and a framework within which the performers add layers of modulations and melodic patterns, then circle back to the motif.
Chicago Reader 2010
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I show how to play the most important gushe's (parts) of dastgah segah.
WN.com - Articles related to BP mum on latest bid to contain U.S. oil spill 2010
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"All intervals-no longer pixelated on the Western grid system of equal temperament, nor tied to the Eastern single-tonic system of maqam or dastgah-were now able to co-exist along a steady continuum of frequency."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Since then he's been working with a fellow traveler from California, Iranian-American saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh, who's undertaken a similar combination of jazz and Persian dastgah-like maqam, it's a group of governing modes and patterns rather than a genre, and both systems use microtonal intervals that sound vividly strange to Western ears.
Chicago Reader 2010
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"Radif Suite" (Pi) is the product of a companionably radical cultural exchange between Amir ElSaffar, a trumpeter fluent in the Iraqi maqam tradition, and Hafez Modirzadeh, a tenor saxophonist versed in the Persian modal system of dastgah.
NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2010
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Since then he's been working with a fellow traveler from California, Iranian-American saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh, who's undertaken a similar combination of jazz and Persian dastgah-like maqam, it's a group of governing modes and patterns rather than a genre, and both systems use microtonal intervals that sound vividly strange to Western ears.
Chicago Reader Miles Raymer 2010
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I show how to play the most important gushe's (parts) of dastgah segah.
WN.com - Articles related to BP mum on latest bid to contain U.S. oil spill 2010
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"All intervals-no longer pixelated on the Western grid system of equal temperament, nor tied to the Eastern single-tonic system of maqam or dastgah-were now able to co-exist along a steady continuum of frequency."
Chicago Reader Miles Raymer 2010
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(dastgah) and the Indian one (raga), there are several scales in both where the intervals overlap.
Chicago Reader 2010
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(dastgah) and the Indian one (raga), there are several scales in both where the intervals overlap.
Chicago Reader 2010
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