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Ebrahim Sharif Zadeh, great Iranian Dotar player passed away

November 15, 2016 by farzimo

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Unfortunately, Ebrahim Sharifzadeh, One of the most important Iranian folklore musicians passed away. On Saturday Nov. 12th, 2016 Iran lost one of it's greatest Dotar players and singers. Ebrahim Sharif Zadeh was borne in a small town of Khorasan razavi province named Bakhraz and started the music when he was…

An Introduction To The Traditional Music Of Iran

September 7, 2016September 7, 2016 by farzimo

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Persian traditional music relies on both improvisation and composition, and is based on a series of modal scales and tunes which must be memorized. The common repertoire consists of more than two hundred short melodic movements called Gusheh, which are classified into twelve Avāz-s, and finally these twelveAvāz-s are categorized…

Duet for Santur and Tonbak by Siamak Aghaei and Kamran Montazeri

August 14, 2016August 14, 2016 by farzimo

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On Friday 12 August, 2016, at 9:30 PM the duet for Santur and Tonbak was performed by Siamak Aghaei and Kamran Montazeri on the stage of Vahdat Hall, Tehran, Iran. This concert was named as "Baz Eshgh" meaning "Love again". Much of the importance of this concert lays in the…