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Spanish flamenco rooted in Iranian music: scholar
TEHRAN, Jan. 13 (MNA) -- Iranian scholar Dariush Pirniakan is convinced that Spanish music was influenced by Iranian music, saying that Spanish flamenco is rooted in Iranian music.
Pirniakan made the statement at a session in which several scholars reviewed and compared cultural and literary commonalities of Iran and Spain on January 12 at Tehran’s Book City.
Pirniakan stated that an analysis of Iranian radifs and rhythms indicates that the basis of Spanish flamenco is rooted in Iranian music. The radifs are the total collection of more than 200 gushehs --traditional melodic entities -- in all 12 dastgahs.
“Centuries ago, when the walls of the Kaaba were damaged and were to be reconstructed, a group of Iranian construction workers specially selected from Isfahan were taken to Mecca for the reconstruction. Among the workers were those who were well versed in music and used to play the lute in their spare time.
“The Arabs who used to pass through the region gradually became interested in the music and the instrument and asked to learn how to play lute,” he explained.
“Great musicians were trained in Saudi Arabia and they later took this music to Andalusia and the Spanish became familiar with Iranian music as well,” he remarked.
Pirniakan stressed that Iranian maqami music is long-established traditional music, which some even believe is rooted in the pre-Islamic era.
In Islamic music, a maqam is a specific musical scale combined with characteristic melodic elements or motifs, played following traditional formats, which together forms a complete system for the melodic and tonal structure of a musical performance.
He mentioned that the respect paid by Islam to music encouraged musicians to take it into the Iranian passion play of tazieh, “Our music was preserved this way and was taken to Andalusia and afterwards to Europe.”
Pirniakan made the statement at a session in which several scholars reviewed and compared cultural and literary commonalities of Iran and Spain on January 12 at Tehran’s Book City.
Pirniakan stated that an analysis of Iranian radifs and rhythms indicates that the basis of Spanish flamenco is rooted in Iranian music. The radifs are the total collection of more than 200 gushehs --traditional melodic entities -- in all 12 dastgahs.
“Centuries ago, when the walls of the Kaaba were damaged and were to be reconstructed, a group of Iranian construction workers specially selected from Isfahan were taken to Mecca for the reconstruction. Among the workers were those who were well versed in music and used to play the lute in their spare time.
“The Arabs who used to pass through the region gradually became interested in the music and the instrument and asked to learn how to play lute,” he explained.
“Great musicians were trained in Saudi Arabia and they later took this music to Andalusia and the Spanish became familiar with Iranian music as well,” he remarked.
Pirniakan stressed that Iranian maqami music is long-established traditional music, which some even believe is rooted in the pre-Islamic era.
In Islamic music, a maqam is a specific musical scale combined with characteristic melodic elements or motifs, played following traditional formats, which together forms a complete system for the melodic and tonal structure of a musical performance.
He mentioned that the respect paid by Islam to music encouraged musicians to take it into the Iranian passion play of tazieh, “Our music was preserved this way and was taken to Andalusia and afterwards to Europe.”
