Zoroastrian music is a kind of religious music that accompanies religious and traditional rites among the Zoroastrian people. Religious music is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. ... Faravahar, The depiction of the human soul before birth and after death. ...
Prior to the arrival of Islam, Zoroastrians knew choral and solo performance songs. Most of those songs are no longer performed any longer, though there remain Zoroastrian religious songs. Many are derived from the Avesta, or from the Gathas (sayings attributed to Zoroaster. Islamic influence can be seen in the melodies of the Naderi method of prayer recitation and pilgrim's songs. The ancient tambourine music of Kermanshah (in Iran) is similar as well to some kinds of Zoroastrian music [1] (http://www.lianrecords.com/pgs/about_RPM.html). Islam (Arabic al-islām الإسلام, listen) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. ... See Avesta Municipality for the Swedish town Yasna 28. ... The Gathas form the oldest part of Avesta, the holy scripture of the Zoroastrian faith, possibly composed by Zarathushtra himself, making them the oldest attestation of an Iranian language. ... Zoroaster was a Iranian prophet, one of the great teachers of the East and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of Persia from the time of the Achaemenidae to the close of the Sassanid period. ... Prayer is an effort to communicate with a God, or to some deity or deities, either to offer praise to the deity, to make a request of the deity, or simply to express ones thoughts and emotions to the deity. ... Spanish antique tambourine The tambourine is musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a single drumhead mounted on a ring with small metal jingles. ... Kermanshah is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ...
Darbe Mehrs and Zoroastrian fire temples usually possess one to two bells which are intoned at certain times during ceremonies. Bell has a range of meanings: A bell is a simple sound-making device, including Tubular bells and cowbells. ...
Whereas music may be performed simply for the joy of it, economics subjects everything to the measuring rod of money, and deals on a mundane level only with that part of life that can be quantified in terms of prices and costs.
The mathematical ratios underlying music's harmonic relations were related to worldly political relations as well as applied on the cosmological level to music's sister science, astronomy (the harmony of the spheres).
Music theory may have been drawn into the public relations campaign of the ancient class war, but economics (at least as expressed in philosophy, political writings and the popular theater) had not yet become a politically self-serving apologetics as has now become the case.
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