Sori (music) explained

The sori (Persian:سری) 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 Alinaghi 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

• Persian traditional music
• Dastgah
• Quarter tone
• koron

External links

• Persian accidentals in the SMuFL glyph (Standard Music Font Layout)

Notes and References

1. Web site: About 24-EDO . https://web.archive.org/web/20200922074829/http://www.96edo.com/24_EDO.html . 2020-09-22 . 96edo.com . Shaahin . Mohajeri.
2. News: Reza Vali: An Iranian Composer to Watch and - of course - to Hear . 2013-07-16 . Maryam . Pirnazar . payvand.com . 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. . Payvand.
3. Web site: Proposal to encode two accidentals for Iranian classical music . 2020-04-23 . Roozbeh . Pournader . unicode.org . Unicode Consortium.
4. Web site: The Unicode® Standard Version 14.0 – Core Specification . September 2021 . . unicode.org .
5. Web site: Musical Symbols - Range: 1D100–1D1FF . 2021 . . unicode.org .