Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Art University of Tehran
2 Assistant Professor, Music Faculty, University of Art, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
"Precious music"; a post-revolutionary term having come into the musical literature of Iran in which its widespread variety of usage requires a great deal of independent research just to achieve a specific definition of the term, the origin and its multiple uses among the contemporary art community of Iran. In order to get a convenient result amid the effort, researchers have come up with a survey-based research in which questionnaires are widely used and a library enquiry is made. It includes academic music professors, the boarding directors of the house of music, artistic managers from the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. Based on the results, the term "Precious music" owns a semantic ambiguity to itself which not only shows various impressions of the term, but it also represents the dispersion of conceptual understandings with the ones who aimed to bring "Precious music" into existence. This research shows that the origin of this word is somehow a gumption made by the art directors of state-owned music institutions who wish to last against the alien art/culture, provide people with their auditory needs and satisfy the music critics, and finally, a way to exonerate the pre-revolution art of Iran.
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