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The Old Persian Musical Modes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1926

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References

page 94 note 1 Hiatus.

page 94 note 2 A famous Persian minstrel was named arūstānī. See Ibrahīm al-Baihaqī, Kitāb al-mdḥāsin, Edit. Van Vloten, 363.

page 94 note 3 See Browne, E. G., Literary History of Persia, i, 1416Google Scholar, JRAS. 1899, pp. 57–69.

page 95 note 1 Dastānāt = dasātīn. Al-wārizmī in his Mafātīḥ al-’Ulūm says (p. 238) : “ The dastān (sing.) is also a name for every melodic mode (laḥn) of the melodic modes which are referred to Bārbud.”