Bayat-e Esfahan
Bayat-e Esfahan (Persian: بیات اصفهان) is one of melodic pieces of Iranian traditional music, known as a branch of Dastgah-e Shur or Dastgah-e Homayun. Some musical theorists consider the Bayat-e Esfahan an independent dastgah within the Persian radif system.{{cite web|title=BAYĀT-E EṢFAHĀN|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bayat-e-esfahan|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica|language=en}}
Features
Ruhollah Khaleqi has noted that this mode conveys the emotional capacity of both happiness and sadness.{{cite book|title=A look at Iranian Music|date=2011|isbn=9789649682600|page=181|oclc=956997616|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956997616|last1=الله،|first1=خالقى، روح}}
Branches
Bayat-e Esfahan has a number of branches or {{transl|far|gushehs}}, including:
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Daramad-e avvval}} (first preface)
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Daramad-e dovvom}} (second preface)
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Jame daran}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Bayat-e Raje}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Oshagh (owj)}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Bayat-e Shiraz}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Suz va Godaz}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Naghme}}
- {{transl|far|italic=no|Masnavi}}
- Sufi name (or Saki name)