An Islamic Language Of Iran - 1515 Words

Bordering along the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea lies the country that was once Persia until 1935, Iran. The official language of Iran is but not limited to Persian. Also spoken in Iran is Azeri Turkic and Turkic, Mazandarani, Luri, Balochi, Gilaki and Arabic. Iran’s population includes Persians, Kurds, Lur, Baloch, Azeri, Arab, and Turkic tribes. Islam is the dominating religion with around 99.4% of the population being Muslim. An Islamic Republic was formed in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown. A theocratic system was then created by the conservative clerical forces which dictates that the laws of the land as being secular and based on Islamic law. Authority in Iran determined that the concept of music†¦show more content†¦Classical vocal improvised music has some, while composed, metric pieces with ceremonial implications, such as the pishdaramad, are definitely musiqi but lack the full range of objectionable characteristics suggested in pieces with a primarily virtuoso intent, such as the chahar mezrab, or of Westernized music, to say nothing of absolutely secular music such as night-club performances. All of this suggests that, in contemporary urban Iran, the sounds that might be considered to be simply music in Western culture might be regarded as music, but to varying degrees. The dominant sounds in Iran are the metallic and clear sounds. Persian classical music has free form which can be measured or not and is open to improvisation (à ¢và ¢z/ chahà ¢rmezrà ¢b). Moreover, from one maqà ¢m (system of melodic modes) to another, all the melodies resemble each other, differing mainly by their scale. It is an ingenuous imitation technique, which has been developed by the Central Asian masters. The musical form has no rules. Styles vary from calls at a measured pace on a single note, or within a narrow range centred on one note, to richly melismatic chants with a wide range. Rhythmic structure is influenced by the length of the syllables in the text. Textual repetition often leads to repeated musical phrases differing only in their final note. Unusually,