Ney Nameh - Music of Mazandaran

Mazandarani folk (also called Tabari music) is the traditional music of Mazandaran, a lush Caspian Sea province in northern Iran. Sung largely in the Mazandarani/Tabari language, it carries call-and-response refrains, narrative ballads, pastoral shepherd songs, and vigorous dance tunes tied to harvests, weddings, and communal feasts. Melodically it blends regional modes with Persian modal thinking, but with distinct local flavors, pentachordal cells, and narrow-ranged, ornamented vocal lines. Common instruments include kamancheh (spike fiddle), ney-labak/laleva (end-blown reed flute), dotar and setar (plucked lutes), dayereh/daff (frame drums), tombak, and outdoor sorna–dohol pairs for ceremonies. Forms such as Amiri (epic/narrative), Katuli (lyrical), Kermāshō (dance song), harvest chants, and lullabies (Lalaei) are characteristic.