Preface; Transliterations; Opening statement; 1. A brief historical perspective; 2. Intervals and scales in contemporary Persian music; 3. Musical concepts and terminology; 4. Dastgah-e Sur; 5. Dastgah-e Abuata; 6. Dastgah-e Dasti; 7. Dastgah-e Bayat Tork; 8. Dastgah-e Afsari; 9. Dastgah-e Segah; 10. Dastgah-e Cahargah; 11. Dastgah-e Homayun; 12. Dastgah-e Bayat-e Esfahan; 13. Dastgah-e Nava; 14. Dastgah-e Mahur; 15. Dastgah-e Rast (Rast-Panjgah); 16. Vagrant Guses; 17. Compositional forms; Closing statement; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Appendix.

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"Farhat's volume takes its place in musicological literature as an important contribution to scholarship on musical systems and as a lucid, useful, and satisfying introduction to one of the great Middle Eastern classical traditions." Notes

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