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The “'''Picture-storyteller Masters of Iran'''” was written by Hamid Reza Ardalan, musician and scholar of ritual arts of Iran, in thirty volumes. This work introduces thirty Pardekhans who are among the remaining generation of picture-storytellers. This book is the result of ten years of library research and field work of the author. Each volume of this series is around 25 picture pages and includes an introduction and analysis of one of the picture-storytellers. The book and CD, as a contribution to preserving ritual arts and oral heritage of Iran, have been published by “Farhagestan-e Honar” in both English and Persian languages. | The “'''Picture-storyteller Masters of Iran'''” was written by Hamid Reza Ardalan, musician and scholar of ritual arts of Iran, in thirty volumes. This work introduces thirty Pardekhans who are among the remaining generation of picture-storytellers. This book is the result of ten years of library research and field work of the author. Each volume of this series is around 25 picture pages and includes an introduction and analysis of one of the picture-storytellers. The book and CD, as a contribution to preserving ritual arts and oral heritage of Iran, have been published by “Farhagestan-e Honar” in both English and Persian languages. | ||
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The Morsheds who are the Pardekhan performers usually wear dervish apparel. This includes a kind of headband, and a special axe hanging over the shoulder (tabarzin) and a cane in hand. | The Morsheds who are the Pardekhan performers usually wear dervish apparel. This includes a kind of headband, and a special axe hanging over the shoulder (tabarzin) and a cane in hand. | ||
While performing the Pardekhani, main and subsidiary themes, prayers, [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/monajat Monajat] (devotional liturgies), Masnavis, Qazals, Qasidehs and Goriz (tangents) are used. Their curtain is varied and full of motion and some performances include special calm repetitive motions. The Pardekhan moves in front of the curtain, using the hand to indicate the saints, the cane to indicate the evil ones, while a homogenous thinking takes sway between the Morsheds and audience. | While performing the Pardekhani, main and subsidiary themes, prayers, [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/monajat Monajat] (devotional liturgies), Masnavis, Qazals, Qasidehs and Goriz (tangents) are used. Their curtain is varied and full of motion and some performances include special calm repetitive motions. The Pardekhan moves in front of the curtain, using the hand to indicate the saints, the cane to indicate the evil ones, while a homogenous thinking takes sway between the Morsheds and audience. | ||
The Pardekhan narrates the stories in a conversational tone together with song and a kind of order is heard. At times the singing converges with Iranian [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dastgah | The Pardekhan narrates the stories in a conversational tone together with song and a kind of order is heard. At times the singing converges with Iranian [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dastgah Dastgah] music and at others it goes beyond into folk modes of singing) mostly using mouth and nose, a specific type of popular singing), depending on the meter of the poetry. | ||
== source == | |||
* [https://www.unima.org/en/personnes/hamidreza-ardalan/ UNION INTERNATIONALE DE LA MARIONNETTE] | |||
* [https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9507292 princeton university library] | |||
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[[Category:Ritual Dramatic Arts]] | [[Category:Ritual Dramatic Arts]] | ||