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Farzad Milani فرزاد میلانی
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Приєднався 7 лют 2008
Farzad Milani is a Persian musician, composer, producer, researcher, teacher, vocalist, pianist, adept microtonal quartertone accordionist, and holder of a master's degree in music theory from McGill University's Schulich School of Music. Farzad’s research area centers on the microtonal theory of Persian-Arabic-Turkish maqami/dastgahi music, along with its intricate harmonization practices.
His exceptional dedication has garnered him numerous prestigious awards both in the artistic and academic realms. Notable accolades include the title of "Best Accordion Player" in 2007 at the Maah Theatre Festival, recognition for "Best Fusion Album Arrangement" in 2017 at the Fadjr /Iran Music House Festivals, the Phyllis and Bernard Shapiro Music Theory Award in 2021, the Schulich Music School Graduate Excellence Award in 2022, the distinguished International Grant Competition Award in Music in 2023, from McGill University, etc.
His exceptional dedication has garnered him numerous prestigious awards both in the artistic and academic realms. Notable accolades include the title of "Best Accordion Player" in 2007 at the Maah Theatre Festival, recognition for "Best Fusion Album Arrangement" in 2017 at the Fadjr /Iran Music House Festivals, the Phyllis and Bernard Shapiro Music Theory Award in 2021, the Schulich Music School Graduate Excellence Award in 2022, the distinguished International Grant Competition Award in Music in 2023, from McGill University, etc.
Helmholtz, Hedayat, Pythagorean tuning, and the persian 17-tone System
In this video, I’ve briefly reviewed Helmholtz’s ideas about Persian music and the 17-tone system! and the calculation of the intervals with continuation of the Pythagorean Fifths!
Also watch:
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ua-cam.com/video/PIlHb5GgjMI/v-deo.htmlsi=NccFn39O7NxY-BVd
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Helmholtz and Hedayat
03:06 Helmhotz's description of the Persian musical system
04:40 Musical ratios and Pythagorean Fifth
05:35 Obtaining the 17 tones with Pythagorean Fifths (as Abdol-qadir Maraghi suggests)
08:10 The sounding of Persian tetrachord genera with Pythagorean tuning
08:59 Rejection of the Pythagorean-oriented intervals by the practitioners
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Resource:
Daemi Milani, Farzad. "Persian-Arabic Seventeen-Tone Temperament: A Microtonal Extension to the Heptatonic Scale" Master's thesis, McGill University, 2023.
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Songs used in this video:
"In memory of Saba" by Hossein Dehlavi
"Sabok-Bal" by Hossein Dehlavi
"Nook of Existence" by Anahita Ramezani
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#تئوری_موسیقی #موسیقی_ایران #موسیقی_ایرانی #موسیقی_نواحی #موسیقی_ملی #موسیقی_مقامی #موسیقی_دستگاهی# الموسیقی_العربی #موسیقی_عراقی #موسیقی_ترکی #موسیقی_خاورمیانه #هدایت #هلمهولتز #هلمهولص #فیزیک #فیثاغورس #فیثاغورث
Also watch:
ua-cam.com/video/_QN_DG-OJ_4/v-deo.htmlsi=n6zGn5Ry0HGxkfCV
ua-cam.com/video/PIlHb5GgjMI/v-deo.htmlsi=NccFn39O7NxY-BVd
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Helmholtz and Hedayat
03:06 Helmhotz's description of the Persian musical system
04:40 Musical ratios and Pythagorean Fifth
05:35 Obtaining the 17 tones with Pythagorean Fifths (as Abdol-qadir Maraghi suggests)
08:10 The sounding of Persian tetrachord genera with Pythagorean tuning
08:59 Rejection of the Pythagorean-oriented intervals by the practitioners
-------------------------------
Resource:
Daemi Milani, Farzad. "Persian-Arabic Seventeen-Tone Temperament: A Microtonal Extension to the Heptatonic Scale" Master's thesis, McGill University, 2023.
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Songs used in this video:
"In memory of Saba" by Hossein Dehlavi
"Sabok-Bal" by Hossein Dehlavi
"Nook of Existence" by Anahita Ramezani
---------------------------------
My email
farzad.milani@gmail.com
SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/farzadmilani
farzad_milani_music
farzad.milani
www.linkedin.com/in/farzad-milani-music/
Telegram
telegram.me/farzad_milani_music
#persianmusic #persian_music #persian_dastgah #maqam #maqamat #traditionalmusic #arabicmusic #arabicmusictheory #turkishmusic
#jins #genus #genera #ajinas #ancientgreek #greekmusic #musictheory #türk_müziği #iraqimusic #middleeasternmusic #physics #acoustics #helmholtz #hedayat #pythagoras #pythagorean
#تئوری_موسیقی #موسیقی_ایران #موسیقی_ایرانی #موسیقی_نواحی #موسیقی_ملی #موسیقی_مقامی #موسیقی_دستگاهی# الموسیقی_العربی #موسیقی_عراقی #موسیقی_ترکی #موسیقی_خاورمیانه #هدایت #هلمهولتز #هلمهولص #فیزیک #فیثاغورس #فیثاغورث
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Great job:)
Can I know why did you remove the Triton note?
Because it does not hamonically correspond to the first not of the system.
I didn't find your thesis, is it open to the public?
Of course, a chromatic keyboard only has 12 keys, not 17, but some electronic instruments allow to define microtonal custom scales. So would it be possible to play this song on a chromatic keyboard? Or would we need two different custom scales that we could switch between for different parts of the song?
Obviously, it'd be possible by retuning some of the notes on piano, but eventually you'll miss some other pitches.
May I ask some questions: How do you feel about microtonal music, what is the exact emotion that you feel and why? Can you enjoy 53EDO, 31EDO, 7EDO or any EDO at the first time?
Actually, when it gets deviated too much from the natural harmonic series, I'm not happy with it! The most ideal EDO through which you can get the natural values is 53-EDO.
thank you, sir!
Ok my friend, pleas next time use an example of the real thing. Only in the last minute of this video I hear something sounding like being played on a keyboard that needs repair.
Love 🎉❤
Please talk to Jacob Collier!!!!!
We call these "blue notes" in jazz.
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Thank you for the presentation. I would have said augmented sharps and diminished flats (Bartok and Katchachuran already covered this). I would probably call the scale Augmented Chromatic scale. I also wrote a thesis on the absolute number of chords possible in a chromatic scale. I would like to work with you to take this idea to the next level.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for making this video, what tips do you have for westerners who are trying to learn the 17 tone system, especially for trying to compose music using DAW's and for tuning neutral tones given what you mentioned that they do not always fall directly +50 or -50 between the western 12 tones?
You can call it polychromatic scale...
Liked and subsrcibed, so very interesting.
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Sure color are nice. But what are those notes and Hertz they are set to 🤔
Check out this video of mine. I've explained one tuning suggestion for the 17 tones: ua-cam.com/video/OjAEDnm6XD4/v-deo.htmlsi=TdBSwcblKueA2ref
Regards from Colombia!!
Thank you very much. It was informative. Btw why do you have a big headphone on while talking?
Thanks for watching. Actually I don't know. Maybe because I prefer to adjust the level of my intensity by direct monitoring. Also, that's the way I hold my online classes.
Cool video!
Metachromatic?
Isn't "tritone" = F#?
Yes it is
Eival 🙌🏻🇮🇷
thank you
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I believe it is important to realize that music comes from the culture, and is reflective of the minds of the people. Persian artistry, is also part of the deep spiritual consciousness that breathes through the earth's life. It is for me, when I listen to the mystical forms, is a dive into the atmosphere of nature, sunsets, and heat, walking in sands, the coming so close to death by lack of water, or the power of wind to blow through the body and the blood and make one inside out.
The expanded tones are because the soul inside is a much larger world...and reflects the inner space of the mind.
Totally true!
The chromatic scale in modern western music is equal temperament. That's a little artificial; I guess that's also a factor here - the notes you show as mapping don't precisely map? And is there a concept of temperament in Persian music?
Yes, that's correct. The intervals between the tones in the Persian system is not equal, while a 53-tone equal temperament gives acceptable approximations of the 17 tones.
Farsad, thank you! it is beautifully explained.
Thanks for watching
@@farzadmilani I appreciate your work. : )
One important question: as you explain the tetrachrds in a very very impressive manor, one thing about those is this, What are the equivalent to Western Keys? How many 'keys' and are they also made on each of the 17 tones?
@@friendtazo Good question! Theoretically, it's possible to modulate to 17 different keys, it the system is considered to be equally designed. But in practice, modulation could happen only to a fifth above or fourth below the tonic. Think if it as a traditional system (we're talking about the era before the 15th century), based on the structure of the traditional string instruments.
@@farzadmilani Exactly.
Why doesn't the 7 tone system count the octave higher c while the 12 tone system does? Souldn't it be called 8 tone instead?
There will be 13 tones if you consider c' ! what do you mean?!
@@farzadmilani i have been corrected.
@@farzadmilani i play stringed instruments and thus forgot to count fret 0
@@reme7903 Oh I see! No worries. That's why piano is considered to be the instrument of music theory 🎼
@@farzadmilani i feel kinda stupid now but these kinds of misunderstandings tend to happen to me pretty often.
Yes! I love these deep nerdy music topics :) and wow Maraghi's barbat is HUGE! Do you think the painting exaggerates the size of it?
I don't think it's an exaggeration. He has been an instrument builder as well. He has even a collection of sketchd of weird instruments never manufactured.
A fascinating video!
Extra chromatic or Polychromatic❤ interesting video
Once I had that Iranian cultural channel with a lot of music, Iranian music left a bad impression and I love music.
Thanks. But i have a question : in my saz the 1/4 notes are in the 2, the 4, 7, 9 and 12 frets. So it is getting well. But if i use a capo (by example from C to D ) i could not have the same.
Makes sense, since the system is not equally designed!
I'd be interested in seeing if you applied something like the circle of fifths or the various types of modulation charts to this if it would produce something a bit more different than expected, on account of the tritone being removed.
Stay tuned with my channel. My next video is in this regard. It'll be released tomorrow.
Thank you, great video!
Thanks for watching Tolgahan!
It just sounds like you’re playing everything on a piano that is completely out of tune. Sorry, but it’s just not pleasant sounding to my western ears.
I know what you mean. It takes time getting out of the confined field of 12-EDO and getting used to the natural intervals.
Man this was great video!
Thank you.
Polychromatic (obviously?)
As a synaesthete, though not a lifelong synaesthete, I found this fascinating. I have absolute pitch, and I started experiencing synaesthesia after experimenting with music in base-16 (with sixteen tones in the octave). My colour associations are not necessarily consistent or even rational (e.g. a spectrum layout such as the one you present in this video). For example, my A is a sky blue, while my A three-quarters sharp (an A sharpened by three eighth tones) is a darker blue, somewhere between sky blue and ultramarine blue. Which as an association is counter-intuitive since we would describe the pitch as a 'brighter' A, but my colour association is darker because my ear says that it sounds kind of like B flat.
That's interesting! Thanks for sharing your observations.
Youve, already got a name for it: Persian 17-tone scale (p.s., interesting stuff!)
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What about one with 13? Have you heard of such?
What do you mean? If you're addressing the 13th partial of the natural harmonic series, yea that's the generative ratio for the neutral intervals.
Holographic
But where is G flat?
It makes a tritone interval with the key note of the system (C). They harmonically do not fit, and that's why it's taken out.
I live in the Blue Mountains Sydney. There was a man who lived near me who wrote a lot about 31 tone systems. Bill Coates 1917 to 1997. "He gradually came to realise the impoverishing effects that confining ourselves to 12 equal notes to the octave has had on Western music. And, while appreciating the various ways in which shades of notes are treated in non-European musics, he decided to work towards extending our Western equal temperament from 12 to 31 notes in each octave. When he had come to understand that, mathematically speaking, 31 is the best of equal temperaments, he undertook composition in it. He made frequent visits to Holland, where support for 31 is strong; he often played on the 31-note, 2-manual organ at Haarlem (with 31-note pedals!); and commissioned and possessed an Archiphone - the electronic organ permanently tuned to 31 equal notes in each octave."
That's nice. But I'd say it doesn't work for the Persian music because of deviated approximations that it gives for P4th and P5th intervals.
Western composers: “Augmented seconds. Got it.”
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These lesson are wonderful! I hope to play Persian and Iraqi style oud one day. Would it be possible to have more song broken down like you did here with dastgah-e mahor, where you show the specific tetrachords being played and when they switched. Your analysis is very helpful! Moteshakeram!
Thanks for your comment! Sure, I'll make more analysis videos like this one.
i'd call the 17 note system: hyperchromatic.
Great video, thanks. I am wondering what king of tunings of the quarter tones are used depending on the mode played. If anyone can point me to some information would be appreciated.
Thanks for your comment. In theory it's combination of Pythagorean 3:2 tuning paralleled with an either 13-limit or 11-limit ratios for the neutral intervals. But in practice, the size of the intervals fluctuate according to different modes, or different geographical regoins, or even different schoolds, but in general they're more close to the ratios from the natural harmonic series.
Hyperchromatic?
Huh, you're at McGill too?
Yes I am. You too?!
@@farzadmilani Yes, I am writing my Master's thesis on a census of published biblical Hebrew melodies. I'm reconstructing their history of transmission and evolution going back 2000+ years. I recently moved out of the Redpath Museum and am now in the Stewart Biology west wing. I've co-supervised a student with Julie Cumming, though, at the School of Music. Different scale systems are interesting to me personally, because I'm curious about the realm of the possible in reciting ancient texts. (I've incorporated reconstructed pronunciation schemes and recitation rules, for example, and found measure and metre by experiment. But intonation remains a matter of my own native+acquired idiom, unless I'm lifting tones from my sources or from our low-res reconstructions which are still a work in progress.)
@@Yamikaiba123 That's a great topic for a thesis! Way to go!
I would love to try this out on my synthesizer, i.e., to put this into a quantizer. Is there a good web resource that will list tetrachord pairs using quarter-tones according to the described systems?