As part of the SDSU Music Department's World Music Series, Dornob will present classical, folk, and original music from Iran.
Dornob is a multi-cultural multi-generational collective of musicians who've been playing Iranian music(s) in San Diego since 1984. Their goals, in addition to friendship and fun, include learning the musical tradition, fostering creativity, and crossing cultural bridges.
The Musicians:
Stacey Barnett: voice
Mahmood Shamshiri: ney
Dara Bamoradi: qanun
Louis Valenzuela: oud
Masih Salafzoun: daf
Farhad Bahrami: tar
The Instruments:
The goblet-shaped t?mbak is the drum most often used in Persian music today. The t?r—and it's smaller cousin, the set?r—have been the main stringed instruments of Iranian music for the past few hundred years. In Persian, "t?r" means "string". The ney is a simple bamboo flute played to produce a very special breathy sound. The daf is a large frame drum used in music from Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Program Notes:
Just as Persian, Arabic and Turkish are names of languages widely spoken in the area known today as the Middle East, so are they names given to three related musical systems of that area. Even though Middle-Eastern music had a profound effect on European music prior to the 17th century, with the invention and adoption of the 12-tone system in Europe, Persian/Turkish/Arabian musics took a different evolutionary path, retaining their so-called ?quarter-tones? which are absent from the 12-tone chromatic scale.
Persian, Turkish, and Arabic musics share a concept called maq?m, which is similar to a Western scale. Persian music additionally uses a system called dastg?h, which provides a framework for navigating between different maq?ms or scales. There are seven main dastg?h, each with its own mood and roadmap of tonal possibilities. The dastg?h system, like the majority of the world?s music, is an oral/aural tradition, taught heart to heart from master to student. The repertoire used in teaching is called rad?f. In the last century many melodies from the dastg?h system have been notated, however performances of Persian music, like jazz, always involve on-the spot creation and improvisation.
Some common forms include: Daramad ("opening" or free voice or instrument improvisation), PishDaramad (a stately composed piece to precede the Daramad), ChaharMezrab (an improvised virtuosic piece), Tasnif (song), and Reng (a composed, fast piece in 6/8 used to conclude a performance).
Admission/Cost:
Location:
Smith Recital Hall
SDSU
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, September 17 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.facebook.com/DornobCollective
Dornob is a multi-cultural multi-generational collective of musicians who've been playing Iranian music(s) in San Diego since 1984. Their goals, in addition to friendship and fun, include learning the musical tradition, fostering creativity, and crossing cultural bridges.
The Musicians:
Stacey Barnett: voice
Mahmood Shamshiri: ney
Dara Bamoradi: qanun
Louis Valenzuela: oud
Masih Salafzoun: daf
Farhad Bahrami: tar
The Instruments:
The goblet-shaped t?mbak is the drum most often used in Persian music today. The t?r—and it's smaller cousin, the set?r—have been the main stringed instruments of Iranian music for the past few hundred years. In Persian, "t?r" means "string". The ney is a simple bamboo flute played to produce a very special breathy sound. The daf is a large frame drum used in music from Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Program Notes:
Just as Persian, Arabic and Turkish are names of languages widely spoken in the area known today as the Middle East, so are they names given to three related musical systems of that area. Even though Middle-Eastern music had a profound effect on European music prior to the 17th century, with the invention and adoption of the 12-tone system in Europe, Persian/Turkish/Arabian musics took a different evolutionary path, retaining their so-called ?quarter-tones? which are absent from the 12-tone chromatic scale.
Persian, Turkish, and Arabic musics share a concept called maq?m, which is similar to a Western scale. Persian music additionally uses a system called dastg?h, which provides a framework for navigating between different maq?ms or scales. There are seven main dastg?h, each with its own mood and roadmap of tonal possibilities. The dastg?h system, like the majority of the world?s music, is an oral/aural tradition, taught heart to heart from master to student. The repertoire used in teaching is called rad?f. In the last century many melodies from the dastg?h system have been notated, however performances of Persian music, like jazz, always involve on-the spot creation and improvisation.
Some common forms include: Daramad ("opening" or free voice or instrument improvisation), PishDaramad (a stately composed piece to precede the Daramad), ChaharMezrab (an improvised virtuosic piece), Tasnif (song), and Reng (a composed, fast piece in 6/8 used to conclude a performance).
Admission/Cost:
Location:
Smith Recital Hall
SDSU
San Diego, CA 92182
Monday, September 17 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.facebook.com/DornobCollective
