Jean During (born 1947) is a French musician and

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...

specialising in music from the nations of the East especially

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, Central Asia,

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and

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

. A commentator on the Middle Eastern and

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cultures, he is the Research Director at the

French National Center for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

and a professor at the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during ...

Biography

Jean During was born in 1947 in

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. He began studying guitar at the age of 13, and by the age of 17, he was teaching Western classical guitar at the Toulouse National Conservatory and performing solo and with chamber orchestras. He left France after receiving a master's degree in philosophy to study Iranian music and eventually settled in Iran. He earned his PhD in 1975 on the history of Iranian music and taught for four years at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy. He returned to France after the Iranian Revolution and enrolled in the French Center for Scientific Research.

Works

Albums

* ''Daramad-E Dovvom'' (Metric Pieces By Jean During) (2013) * ''The Uighur Qumul Muqam of Xinjiang, China'' (2014)

Books

;In English * ''The Spirit of Sounds: The Unique Art of Ostad Elahi (1895–1974)'' (2003) * ''Resonance: The Musical Legacy of Ostad Elahi'' (2016) * ''The art of Persian music'' (Washington, D.C. : Mage Publishers, 1991) ;In French * ''La musique traditionnelle de l'Azerbayjan et la science des muqâms raditional Music of Azerbaijan and the Science of Muqâms' (Baden-Baden : Bouxwiller : V. Koerner, 1988) * ''La musique iranienne : tradition et évolution ranian Music: Tradition and Evolution' (Paris : Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1984) * ''Musique et extase : l'audition mystique dans la tradition soufie usic and Ecstasy: Mystic Audition in the Sufi Tradition' (Paris : A. Michel, ©1988) * ''Musiques d'Asie centrale : l'esprit d'une tradition usics of Central Asia: the spirit of a tradition' (Arles: City of Music: Actes sud, 1998.) * ''Musique et mystique dans les traditions de l'Iran usic and Mysticism in the Traditions of Iran' (Paris : Institut français de recherche en Iran, 1989) * ''Quelque chose se passe: le sens de la tradition dans l'Orient musical omething happens: the meaning of tradition in the musical Orient' (Lagrasse : Verdier, 1995) * ''Azerbâyjân: musique traditionelle zerbaijan: traditional music' (Chant du monde : Distribution, Harmonia Mundi France, 1989)

References

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