He was also a polymath, with knowledge in astronomy, geography, meterology, botanics, cosmetics, culinary art and fashion. Its enduring heritage is the names given to some of today’s gushehs of the various dastgahs in the current system of Persian classical music.Ību l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi’ (789-857), known as Ziryab (or Zaryab), was a musician, singer, oud player, composer, poet and teacher probably born in Baghdad of Iranian, Kurdish origins, who lived and worked in Iraq, Northern Africa and during more than 30 years, in Andalus – Spain. This is the oldest Middle Eastern musical system of which some traces still exist. There are also some of a descriptive nature like roshan cheragh. His musical theories are not known, however the writers of later period have left a list for some e Shahryar, and haft Ganj. Neẓāmī (in his Ḵhosrow Shirin) mentions the name of these 30 tunes.
Based on this system he created thirty derivative modes for each day of the month (named lahn ) and 360 melodies (named dastan ) for each day of the year to be played at the banquets of the king. He has been credited with creating an organisation of the Persian musical system consisting of seven “Royal Modes” named khosrovani. He also versified military victories and current events. In most sources, Jahrom, a small city south of shiraz in the Fars province is mentioned as his birthplace.īarbod was a poet-musician who used to compose verses and sing them to his own accompaniment on various state occasions, e.g.,the great Iranian festivals, especially Nowrooz and Mehregan, or at other state banquets, etc. According to these, he was the most distinguished and talented minstrel-poets of his epoch.
Only scant information, mostly of a legendary nature, is preserved about Barbod in the Arabic and Persian sources. Barbad (or Barbod) was a poet and musician of the Sassanid era who lived during the rule of Khosow II (590 to 628 AD).
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