dastgah

plural dastgahs · alternative dastgāh

1. countableuncountableOne of the basic melody types in traditional Persian music, each consisting of seven base notes and seven further variable notes used for ornamentation and modulation.

   Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.

   2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times