Musical Research

Here are some articles on Persian/Iranian music theory:

A) Dastgāhs and maqāms:

• Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music”, Music Theory Online (MTO), vol. 31, no. 2, June 2025 (accepted 2024-12-28); https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.2.7.

• “Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Humāyūn in Persian Art Music”, Music Theory Spectrum (MTS), vol. 47, no. 2, Fall 2025 (accepted 2024-01-22), mtae023, pp. 158-179, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae023.

B) Intervals, gamut and fretting Systems:

• “Empirical Evaluation of Intervals and Fretting Systems in Persian Art Music”, Analytical Approaches to World Musics (AAWM), vol. 11, no. 2, December 2023, https://journal.iftawm.org/previous/2023-volume-11-no-2/poorhaydari/.

• “Barrasī-yi tārīkhī, tajrubī va naẓarī-yi favāṣil-i mūsīqī-yi irānī jahat-i irāʾi-yi gām-i muntaẓam-i hijdah-pardih-yi va dastān-nishānī-yi tār va sitār (Historical, Experimental and Theoretical Evaluations of Persian Music Intervals for Presenting a Systematized 18-tone Scale and Fretting Tār and Sitār)," Mahoor Music Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 99, Spring 2023, pp. 35-57. 

• “Examination of Neutral Intervals and Parent Scales in Persian Art Music: A Step toward the Standardization of the Musical System”, Music Theory and Analysis (MTA), vol. 9, no. 1, May 2022, pp. 28-55,  https://doi.org/10.11116/MTA.9.1.2.