dastgah
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Persian دستگاه (dastgâh).
Noun[edit]
dastgah (countable and uncountable, plural dastgahs)
- One of the basic melody types in traditional Persian music, each consisting of seven base notes and seven further variable notes used for ornamentation and modulation.
- 2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
- Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.