Masato Tani is Associate Professor at Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, specializing in ethnomusicology. While in the Osaka College of Music, he initiated his fieldwork in Iran and started learning to play santūr in the coutry.
Ph.D. (Literature) from Osaka University, M.A. (Arts) from Kyoto City University of Arts, and B.A. (Music) from the National University of Arts in Iran. He received the Encouragement Prize in the Santūr Solo Section of the 1st Iranian Students Music Competition in 1998 held at the University of Tehran.
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Improvisation is a defining characteristic of t...Improvisation is a defining characteristic of traditional Iranian music. Iranian musicians describe their music as ‘impossible to play in the same way twice’ or ‘able to be performed in many ways,’...
