"Voices from the Land of Iran" - Various Artists

Various Artists

Songs

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Iran is a vast country with a conspicuous variety of musical cultures. Besides Persian classical music, there exists an enormous repertory of various, either rural or urban, folk musics, which in turn embody a variety of ethnic and regional genres. In addition to the diversity of genres, modes, rhythms and instrumentarium, the vocal techniques of sound production and their utilization in each repertory depend on the given musical genre and also vary in different regions and cultural zones. The present collection aims at presenting an overview of almost all vocal techniques of sound production, and their utilization, in the musics of Iran considering the sonic varieties in the musical cultures of the country.