kamancheh Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/kamancheh/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 11:53:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://irannewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-iranlogo-32x32.png kamancheh Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/kamancheh/ 32 32 Kamancheh listed as Iran’s intangible cultural heritage https://irannewsdaily.com/2017/12/kamancheh-listed-irans-intangible-cultural-heritage/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2017/12/kamancheh-listed-irans-intangible-cultural-heritage/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:15:36 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=16978 TEHRAN – UNESCO listed Kamancheh, an Iranian bowed stringed instrument, and the team sport of polo as Iranian cultural heritages in a session held in South Korea on December 7, 2017. In the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held from December 4 to December 8 in […]

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]]> TEHRAN – UNESCO listed Kamancheh, an Iranian bowed stringed instrument, and the team sport of polo as Iranian cultural heritages in a session held in South Korea on December 7, 2017.

In the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held from December 4 to December 8 in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Kamancheh was added to UNESCO list for Iran’s intangible cultural heritage.

Kamancheh (Persian word for ‘little bow’) is a bowed string instrument which resembles a violin in that it is played by drawing a bow across the strings. It is used in rural and urban Iran in many celebrations and is also played in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and several other countries. The team sport of polo was another Iranian cultural heritage which was included in the list as a result of a proposal submitted by Iran.

Iran has so far had thirteen entries in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO some of which are multinational heritages such as Nowruz and Kamancheh.

Iran will not have any intangible cultural heritage in UNESCO list for 2018, since it did not meet the deadline of March 2017 for submitting the proposal to UNESCO.

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]]> https://irannewsdaily.com/2017/12/kamancheh-listed-irans-intangible-cultural-heritage/feed/ 0 Iranian horse-riding game, kamancheh arts win world heritage status https://irannewsdaily.com/2017/12/iranian-horse-riding-game-kamancheh-arts-win-world-heritage-status/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2017/12/iranian-horse-riding-game-kamancheh-arts-win-world-heritage-status/#respond Sat, 09 Dec 2017 05:07:22 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=16913 TEHRAN – Iran’s “Chogan, a horse-riding game accompanied by music and storytelling”, won the UNESCO world heritage status on Thursday, while “the art of crafting and playing with Kamancheh” gained the tag jointly with Azerbaijan. A total of thirty three worldwide elements were inscribed on the world body’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of […]

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]]> TEHRAN – Iran’s “Chogan, a horse-riding game accompanied by music and storytelling”, won the UNESCO world heritage status on Thursday, while “the art of crafting and playing with Kamancheh” gained the tag jointly with Azerbaijan.

A total of thirty three worldwide elements were inscribed on the world body’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Jeju, South Korea.

Chogan is a horse-riding game traditionally played in royal courts and urban fields and accompanied by music and storytelling. In Chogan, two rider teams compete and the aim is to pass a ball through the opposing team’s goal post using a wooden stick. The bearers of the game include Choganbazan (the athletes), storytellers (Naqqals, Morsheds, etc.) and musicians, according to a dossier submitted to the UNESCO on March 31, 2016.

Kamancheh, a stringed instrument of the fiddle family, epitomizes some major elements of classical and folkloric music and performances that Iran and Azerbaijan have in common.

Knowledge associated with the art of crafting and playing kamancheh has been passed down from generations to generations from both families and in musicians. The stringed instrument has a membrane belly and is played either by soloists or in ensembles.

The art of Neapolitan pizza making, Dutch wind mills, along with traditional boat making on the Indonesian island of South Sulawesi, and Nsima, a maize-based culinary tradition from the African country of Malawi, joined the prestigious list as well.

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