Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables xi
5. Note on Transliteration and Translation xiii
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Preface xvii
8. Part I Historical and Social Contexts
9. 1 Centers of Musical Patronage between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1
10. 2 Courtesans and Concubines in Early Modern Iran 63
11. 3 Musical Life in the Nineteenth Century 98
12. Part II Music Theories and Practices
13. 4 The Modal System 165
14. 5 Rhythm 231
15. 6 Musical Genres 276
16. Appendix 1: The Systematist Texts 319
17. Appendix 2: The Non-Systematist Texts 321
18. Appendix 3: An Account of the Modal System and Rhythmic Cycles in Non-Systematist Treatises 322
19. Glossary 327
20. Works Cited 339
21. Index 356