Āwāz-e-S̆ur: Zur Melodiebildung in der persischen Kunstmusik - Massoudieh, Mohammad Taghi 1927-1999 (Regensburg Bosse, 1968)
Mohammad Tagahi Massoudieh (1927-1999) was an Iranian musician, researcher, music writer and composer. Massoudieh's efforts to teach and transfer the scientific concepts of music earned him the title of the father of Iranian ethnomusicology. He did a lot of research in the field of Iranian folk music and traditional Iranian music and proposed many scientific theories in various forms of Iranian music that had no precedent until then.
Keywords: Melody; Music history; Music theory; Musical analysis; Iran