سرگذشت موسیقی ایران (سه جلد در یک جلد) | روح‌الله خالقی

About The History of Music in Iran

The History of Music in Iran by Ruhollah Khaleghi (روح‌الله خالقی) is both a history of modern Iranian music and the memoir of a musician who helped shape its twentieth-century institutions. This edition brings all three volumes together in one book.

Khaleghi begins in the late Qajar era and the years after the Constitutional Revolution, then examines music schools, associations, orchestras, radio programmes, and changes in teaching. He places the lives and work of musicians beside wider social developments, creating a first-hand account of the profession.

A substantial part of the work concerns his teacher, Ali-Naqi Vaziri (علینقی وزیری), and Vaziri’s effort to systematise music education. Khaleghi does more than list events: he records memories and judgements about performance, composition, cultural administration, and artistic disagreement.

The book is a broad source for researchers of Iranian music and for readers interested in the history of its modern institutions and leading figures. This Safi Ali Shah edition contains 1,014 pages in a three-volumes-in-one format.

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