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Lloyd Clifton Miller, Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz (Richmond: Curzon, 1999). xxiv + 360 pp. ISBN 0-7007-0664-X. L50.00. This book is less a comprehensive study of the subject than an offering to a number of masters of 'traditional' Persian music with whom Miller studied in Tehran during the 1970s. Although it is true that Persian music has a `long historical relationship to Persian poetry' (p. xviii), it becomes clear that what is now considered 'traditional' was codified...