dastgah

English

Alternative forms
  • dastgāh

Etymology

Persian دستگاه‎ (dastgāh)

Noun

dastgah (countable and uncountable, plural dastgahs)

  1. One of the basic melody types in traditional Persian music, each consisting of seven base notes and seven further variable notes used for ornamentation and modulation.
    • 2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times‎:
      Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.
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