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The first recordings of the later famous vocalist, Taherzadeh, worked to make him more popular. Another impact of the sound recording industry was introducing females as professional vocalists. There were no female vocalists on the early Persian records, as they used to serve as more than a pure vocalist, and religious beliefs had prohibited their singing. But soon female vocal records became quite popular and after a couple of decades the most famous female vocalist of Persian music made her first recordings. Apart from pieces by the Royal military band, bringing Persian musicians to the west for re- cording purposes had the result of introducing western influences. A group of master musicians recorded some pieces in Paris that were quite similar to Western music and another group recorded a favorite pop song, Matchiche, in the next 1909 London recording session. The popularity of western instruments should be considered too. None of early 1906 records by the Royal military band seemed to be popular, but 1909 recording sessions introduced Persian music on piano, violin, clarinet and flute. Although Persian violinist Kamancheh had a main role in records made prior to 1914, other violinists later replaced Kamancheh and no record of Kamancheh was made after 1914; Persian dulcimer artist, Santour, and flutist, Ney had the same story, replaced by piano and flute. There were also some minor technical impacts on performing Persian music caused by the condition of sound recording at that time, such as time limitations and required intensity of the sound."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["This paper studies the influence of early recordings on Persian music by analyzing data obtained from the records and old catalogues as well as social and historical points. For the first Persian musicians engaged in making records, it was a way of immortality. But soon after it became a way of celebrity, along with another new way, public concerts. The first recordings of the later famous vocalist, Taherzadeh, worked to make him more popular. Another impact of the sound recording industry was introducing females as professional vocalists. There were no female vocalists on the early Persian records, as they used to serve as more than a pure vocalist, and religious beliefs had prohibited their singing. But soon female vocal records became quite popular and after a couple of decades the most famous female vocalist of Persian music made her first recordings. Apart from pieces by the Royal military band, bringing Persian musicians to the west for re- cording purposes had the result of introducing western influences. A group of master musicians recorded some pieces in Paris that were quite similar to Western music and another group recorded a favorite pop song, Matchiche, in the next 1909 London recording session. The popularity of western instruments should be considered too. None of early 1906 records by the Royal military band seemed to be popular, but 1909 recording sessions introduced Persian music on piano, violin, clarinet and flute. Although Persian violinist Kamancheh had a main role in records made prior to 1914, other violinists later replaced Kamancheh and no record of Kamancheh was made after 1914; Persian dulcimer artist, Santour, and flutist, Ney had the same story, replaced by piano and flute. There were also some minor technical impacts on performing Persian music caused by the condition of sound recording at that time, such as time limitations and required intensity of the sound."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128088/file/239771","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2010_Mohammadi_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2259.54756,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128088/file/239771/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128088/file/239771/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/771/original/ARSC_conf_2010_Mohammadi_audio.mp3?1714146604","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2259.54756,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128088/file/239771","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}