Ali-Naqi Vaziri

Ali-Naqi Vaziri (1887, Tehran, Iran – September 9, 1979) was a musicologist, composer, a celebrated player of the tar, and the founder of the Academy of Music of Iran as well of Iran's National Orchestra.

Ali-Naqi Vasiri (better known as Colonel Ali-Naqi Vasiri) is one of the seven children of Musa Khan Vaziri (a prominent official in the Persian Cossack Brigade) and Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable Iranian writer, satirist and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran; her book "Ma'ayeb al-Rejal" (Failings of Men, also translated as Vices of Men) is considered by some as the first declaration of women's rights in the modern history of Iran. The celebrated artistic painter Hasan Vaziri is Ali-Naqi's brother.

Ali-Naqi Vaziri was a master of Iran's classical music so that he was able to play the tar in a style very reminiscent of that of Mirza Abdollah. He always looked for new dimensions and perspectives in musical expression, and by doing so he revolutionized the style of playing the tar. He was the first to transcribe the classical radif of the Persian music.

References

*Haghighat, A., Honarmandan e Irani az Aghaz ta Emrooz, Koomesh Publication, 2004, (in Persian)
*Khaleghi, R., Sargozasht e Musighi e Iran, Ferdowsi Publication, 1955, (in Persian)
* Ella Zonis, "Contemporary Art Music in Persia", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 636-648 (1965). [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4631(196510)51:4%3C636:CAMIP%3E2.0.CO;2-F JSTOR]
* Hormoz Farhat, "The Dastgāh Concept in Persian Music" (Cambridge University Press, 1990). ISBN 0-521-30542 X, ISBN 0-521-54206-5 (first paperback edition, 2004). For a review of this book see: Stephen Blum, "Ethnomusicology", Vol. 36, No. 3, Special Issue: Music and the Public Interest, pp. 422-425 (1992). [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1836(199223)36%3A3%3C422%3ATDCIPM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E JSTOR]
* Laudan Nooshin, in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", edited by Stanley Sadie, second edition (Macmillan, London, 2001). ISBN 1561592390. (Oxford University Press, 2001). ISBN 0195170679.

External links

* "Ali-Naqi Vaziri" ( [http://www.rkac.com/people/vaziri.htm In English] ), Rouhollah Khaleghi Artistic Center / "Kanun-e Honari-e Rouhollah Khaleghi" ( [http://www.rkac.com/] ).