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Music theorists from this modern-day country notated dynamics in a 16-column table and drew tunings as concentric arcs in the influential treatise Book of Modes. Loris (-5[1])Tjeknavorian wrote an opera with Orff’s help based on an epic from this country and scored a film starring the singer Googoosh. (-5[1])A musicologist from this modern-day country (15[1])designed the sori and koron, shaped like an angular P and (15[1])pilcrow, when introducing Western notation and (*) quarter-tone accidentals in the early 20th century. A 5-part suite’s free improvisation, tasnif, and rhythmic reng are based on modes like Shur and (10[1])Dashti, two of the (10[1])12 avaz and dastgah associated (10[1])with gusheh melodies collectively called this country’s radif. This modern-day country originated the double-bowled tar lute, santur dulcimer, and kamancheh fiddle. (10[1])For 10 points, the reformer Ali-Naqi Vaziri and traditionalist Nur-Ali (10[1])Borumand are from what country that outlawed Western music after an (-5[1])Islamic (10[3])Revolution? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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