Sori (music)

Notes for the white string of a on a 25-fret Setar,tuned to C. Instrument has both koron and sori notes.

The sori (Persian: سُری) is a symbol that corresponds to a quarter step higher in tone in Persian traditional music.[1] It is written as a ">" sign, crossed by two vertical lines, and can be used like an accidental.

In the early 20th century, Iranian master musician Ali-Naqi Vaziri established this sign for the sori for use in written Persian music using standard western notation.[2]

Character representation of this accidental symbol together with Koron[3] encoding (encoded as U+1D1E9 and U+1D1EA) microtones used in modern Iranian classical music added to the Unicode standard[4] in Version 14.0.0.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Mohajeri, Shaahin. "About 24-EDO". 96edo.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020.
  2. ^ Pirnazar, Maryam (16 July 2013). "Reza Vali: An Iranian Composer to Watch and - of course - to Hear". payvand.com. Payvand. For transcription of the micro-tones, I use the standard notation of the micro-tones, the Sori and the Koron, which were developed during early 20th century by the Persian master Alinaghi Vaziri.
  3. ^ Pournader, Roozbeh (23 April 2020). "Proposal to encode two accidentals for Iranian classical music" (PDF). unicode.org. Unicode Consortium.
  4. ^ "The Unicode® Standard Version 14.0 – Core Specification" (PDF). unicode.org. Unicode Consortium. September 2021.
  5. ^ "Musical Symbols - Range: 1D100–1D1FF" (PDF). unicode.org. Unicode Consortium. 2021.