The Effect of Modernity on the Persian Classical Instruments

Abstract

Different types of music can be classified based on various parameters. Consistent with several reasons, music can be classified into two
categories: "Regional Music", which means music of different regions, and as the name reads, its source is adjacent area of big cities; and "Urban
Music", which is a type that was common in cities. Music is almost found in every known culture, past and present, varying a lot in times and
places. It may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans worldwide, since
all societies, even the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music and related instruments. The culture of music is influenced by different
aspects, such as social, economic changes & experiences, climates and access to technology to face other cultures. The emotions and ideas that
music expresses, the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes toward music players and composers all vary between
times and places. It makes us think that different places experience the challenge of modernity in the arts diversely. In this article, the effects of
modernity on the instruments of urban music, alternatively known as "Persian classical music", have been studied.