in Iranian Vocal Music Based on a Comparison of Dashti and Mahour Āvāz-s (Songs) of Abdullah Davami’s Vocal Radif: A Linguistic Approach

This article examines the relationship between phonetic elements and meaning in Dashti and Mahur Āvāz-s (songs) from Abdollah Davami’s Vocal Radif. Its purpose is to identify the effective articulatory phonetic elements and how they are used in the phonetic chain of Āvāz-s. Here, we have studied phonetic elements such as pitch, vowel lengthening, rhythm, and elements such as silence and syllable type in each Āvāz. The results showed that the phonetic structures of the Gūše –s (melodic modes), like phonetic structures of sentences of languages, follow fixed and predetermined patterns, and the occurrence of the phonetic elements, with a certain quality and in the positions determined by the melodic structure of Gūše -s, triggered transmitting and stimulating a sense and a meaning in the listener and reinforcing poetry. As, Dashti in comparison with Mahur induces a sense of sadness to the listener by using more falling pitch, maintaining the pitch proceeding in the syllable realm, more dramatic use of silence, the desire to use longer silences, the extensive use of vowel lengthening, the lower speed of its Gūše-s and as a result, the slower rhythm of its Gūše-s.