Āvāz

by Blum, Stephen

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Āvāz is a Persian term (also āvā and āvāza in Persian, āwāz in Arabic) for the voice of a person, bird, or animal, or a sound from another source. It has three important meanings in music: singing in general; the most prestigious form of singing in Persian traditional (sunnatī) music and its imitation on musical instruments; and a modal system regarded as a branch or derivative of a larger system. In performances of Persian traditional music, interest centres on the āvāz in the second of these …

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Āvāz is a Persian term (also āvā and āvāza in Persian, āwāz in Arabic) for the voice of a person, bird, or animal, or a sound from another source. It has three important meanings in music: singing in general; the most prestigious form of singing in Persian traditional (sunnatī) music and its imitation on musical instruments; and a modal system regarded as a branch or derivative of a larger system. In performances of Persian traditional music, interest centres on the āvāz in the second of these senses, in which a

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3712

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eng Islam

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Blum, Stephen

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