Persian Classical music

The Persian classical music has been traced back a long way. The artists such as Barbad were legendary in the empire of the Sassanid period.

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Until the early the 20^th century, musiqi-e assil was heard almost completely at the royal courts of the monarchy. After the exclusive Qajar dynasty ended in the year 1925, the Pahlavi dynasty funded and supported folk Iranian music Musiqi-e assil and made it available to the tribe to enjoy for the next few eras, especially after the cassettes were founded in the 1960s. During the Phalavi Dynasty from the year 1925 to 1979, Iran released the classical/Dastgahi singing artists like Adib, Badie zadeh, Hoseyn Ghawami, Taj esfahani, Banan, Marzeyeh and instrumentalists such as Shahnazi, Abolhasan Saba, Asghar Bahari, Majid Kiani, Hossein Tehrani, Ahmad Ebadi, Ali Tadjvidi, Jalil Shahnaz, Faramarz Payvar and Hassan Kassai.

The year after the 1979 revolution appeared the Islamic Republic approved stars such as Parviz Meshkatian, Sodeyf Rambod, Hatam Askari Farahani, Jamshid Andalibi, Kayhan Kalhor, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hossein Alizadeh, Dariush Talai, Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahran Nazeri. The revitalization brought fame to the genre. Even though the rebellion period concurred with the music fame, music and Islam have not always mesh well and several Iranian conservatives disliked even the simple melodies and lyrics of the classical music. Females were stopped from singing as soloists for male viewers, though they were allowed to continue performing as soloist’s female viewer, as instrumentalists and in chorus.

Most of the notable living Iranian classical vocalists are Shahram Nazeri, Sodeyf, and Shajarian. Among relatively new classical vocalists we can mention: Ali Jahandar, Homayoun Shajarian, Hamid Reza, Mohsen Keramati, Iraj Bastami and Nourbakhsh.

More of the notable Iranian progressive artists whom at their own time have made the recent and the current Persian classical based theories and patterns include the late Ostad Parviz Yahaghi, the late Ostad Asadollah Malek, the late Ostad Mohammad Baharloo, the late Ostad Varzandeh, the late Ostad Hossein Tehrani, Ostad Faramarz Payvar, the late Ostad Alinaghi Vaziri and Ostad Bahman Rajabi who have impacted and influenced the classical Iranian traditions with their respective new musical styles.

Some of the notable bands include Manoochehr Sadeghi: Santur, Aref Ensemble, Hamavayan Ensemble, National music ensemble, Zoufonoun ensemble, Shams ensemble, Dastan ensemble, Kamkars ensemble, Chemirani ensemble, Axion of Choice band, Chakavak Ensemble, Lian ensemble, Radif ensemble, Nour ensemble and Afsaneh music and dance group.