"Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christop…
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Marāghī b. Ghaybī (d. 838/1435) was the most important Persian writer on music, also a composer, lutenist, poet, painter, and calligrapher. A boon companion of the Jalāʾirid Sulṭān Ḥusayn, in 781/1379 he composed for him a new nawbah , or suite, for each ni…
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) …