the exoticism concept in iranian culture and its aspects in iranian traditional music

exoticism can be considered under any cultural unfamiliarity in an art work. however, this concept is adopted to western definition of similarity, here in iranian (persian) traditional music what the exotic elements are and how they are extracted can be considered under various musical reflections of iranian cultural beliefs about the exoticism concept; backgrounds such as the viewpoint of iranian culture to western world, some of the verbal language strangeness in names and expressions of radif, the differences of sound texture in this music, also attitudes to female as another one to male. although a different approach contains the observation of outstanding unfamiliar elements in the four main traits of music (pitch, rhythm, timbre, and dynamic). therefore, the issue of this article is consideration the exotic elements in the content, structure, and practice of iranian traditional music according to the exoticism concept in iranian culture, so that the topic can be started in this music, and the medium prepared for more related researches in the future.