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Heart to Heart
ALEKSANDRA KOTECKA, TOMASZ WIERZBOWSKI
Heart to Heart
A tale by Mahsa Vahdat, a female singer from a country where women are not allowed to sing, about how the past meets the present thanks to art, a meeting which in music becomes apparent in the form of a moment which embraces all eternity.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND NAMES
- Mahsa Vahdat - If I Were God
- Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat - Aman Hey Aman
- Setar
- Pari Maleki - Be Esfahan ro (Head toward Isfahan)
- Pari Maleki - Lori Song (Lorestani Song)
- Pari Maleki - The Heartbreaker (Delshekan) - Dashti
- Pari Maleki - Saz-o Avaz (tunes and tones)
- Mahdi Fallah
- Mohammad Reza Shajarian – Dar Khiyal
- Gholam Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina
- Delkash
- Marzieh - A tribute
- Radif
- Hafez
- Rumi
- Saadi Shirazi
- Omar Khayyam
- Marjan Vahdat
- Persian Tuned Piano - Segah by Morteza Mahjoobi
- Equal temperament
- Kryuki
- Irmologion
- Kamancheh
GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND NAMES
- Mahsa Vahdat - If I Were God
- Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat - Aman Hey Aman
- Setar
Setar – is an Iranian musical instrument. It is a member of the lute family. It is played with the index finger of the right hand. The range of the setar spans more than two and a half octaves.
- Pari Maleki - Be Esfahan ro (Head toward Isfahan)
- Pari Maleki - Lori Song (Lorestani Song)
- Pari Maleki - The Heartbreaker (Delshekan) - Dashti
- Pari Maleki - Saz-o Avaz (tunes and tones)
- Mahdi Fallah
- Mohammad Reza Shajarian – Dar Khiyal
- Gholam Hossein Banan
- Sima Bina
- Delkash
- Marzieh - A tribute
- Radif
Radif – is a collection of many old melodic figures preserved through many generations by oral tradition. It organizes the melodies in a number of different tonal spaces called dastgah.
- Hafez
Hafez – was a Persian poet who “lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy”.
- Rumi
Rumi – was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
- Saadi Shirazi
- Omar Khayyam
- Marjan Vahdat
Marjan Vahdat – is a singer born in Tehran in 1976. Since 1995 she has performed as an independent singer and musician in many concerts and festivals in Asia, Europe, the USA and Africa with musicians from Iran, Europe and America.
- Persian Tuned Piano - Segah by Morteza Mahjoobi
- Equal temperament
Equal temperament – is a musical temperament or tuning system, which approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into equal steps.
- Kryuki
Kryuki – neumatic notation, meaning ‘hooks’.
- Irmologion
Irmologion – is a liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
- Kamancheh
Kamancheh – is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani and Kurdish music.
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