Expressive Inflections and Pedagogical Insights in Persian Classical Music: Introducing New Approach to Graphic Notation

Abstract

My research explores the complex world of Persian classical music and focuses on the relationship between live performance and musical notation. Understanding the development of this musical tradition requires a comprehension of the relationships and structures between its core elements. I have devoted some time to examining how these relationships operate briefly by studying the history and pedagogy of this music repertoire. This expository material on the Persian musical system is a necessary preparatory phase for the principal goal of this project, which is to introduce graphical symbols into transcription of this music to create a bridge between the intricacy of conception, sound, and execution of this musical repertoire and a diacritical and extended notational symbology based on the western notational system that is capable of capturing the inflections and enhancing the expressive portrayal of this musical repertoire.