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Iranian music is the abstract expression of different manifestations of the enriched legacy of Iranian culture, as the case is with other forms of art.
The formation of words and development of sentences in the music in question are associated with other forms of arts especially decorative arts.
This essay, through comparison and contrast of these two forms of arts, attempts to offer the appropriate methodology for a better insight towards Iranian music as well as training of this form of music based on a better understanding repetition and combination of different, and the
same time limited, confined and specific, motifs. The pivotal points on which this research is based on consist of juxtaposition of common elements in these two forms of art such as order, repetition, rhythm, light and shade, decoration in Iranian music, the combination and development of Iranian music motifs, and their similarities to the formation of decorative patterns, arabesque movement of musical sentences and utilization of symbols.