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...many years ago my desire was to write a piece of music that sounded Persian despite using Western composition techniques. The piece I eventually composed was characterized by polyphony and complicated harmonies, both of wich I had learned from Western music in many years of intensive and passionate study. The result, however, did not satisfy me.
Everything was right and good, but something important was missing. I took a ten-minute break and put on a traditional piece of Persian music performed on a single instrument. While listening, I was suddenly struck by the exellence of monophonic Persian music. |
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