Jalil Shahnaz
Encyclopedia
Jalil Shahnaz is an Iran
ian tar
player born in 1921 in Isfahan.
player Hassan Kassai
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Iranian vocalist Shajarian named his most recent musical group "Shahnaz" in honor of Masetro Shahnaz.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian tar
Tar (lute)
The tār is a long-necked, waisted Iranian instrument. It has been adopted by other cultures and Azerbaijan. The word tar itself means "string" in Persian, though it might have the same meaning in languages influenced by Persian or any other branches of Iranian languages like Kurdish...
player born in 1921 in Isfahan.
Biography
Shahnaz studied under the supervision of Abdolhossein Shahnazi and Hossein Shahnaz and befriended neyNey
The ney is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. It is a very ancient instrument, with depictions of ney players appearing in wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and actual neys being found...
player Hassan Kassai
Hassan Kassai
Hassan Kassai is an Iranian master musician and renowned player of Ney, the traditional reed flute of Iran.-External links:*...
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Iranian vocalist Shajarian named his most recent musical group "Shahnaz" in honor of Masetro Shahnaz.
See also
- Music of IranMusic of IranThe music of Iran has thousands of years of history, as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world cultures,which was located in southwestern Iran...
- Hossein AlizadehHossein AlizadehHossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
- Persian classical music
- List of Iranian musicians