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The 17 pages that link to Radif, each with the reason it gives.

• GhazalRelated: The recurring refrain follows the rhyme in the opening couplet and later second lines.

• Persian classical musicRelated: Its inherited materials supply the tradition’s principal melodic vocabulary.

• DastgahRelated: The radif preserves and teaches the melodic material associated with each dastgah.

• Hafez (Persian poet)Related: Hafez uses recurring refrains to bind couplets and sharpen their echoes.

• TahrirRelated: Radif melodies provide settings in which singers learn and apply tahrir.

• TarRelated: Tar players learn and transform radif melodies in performance.

• Mir Taqi MirRelated: Its recurrence helps shape the music and emotional pressure of Mir’s ghazals.

• GhalibRelated: Ghalib uses recurring refrains to give ghazals musical unity while varying each couplet’s thought.

• Mohammad-Reza LotfiRelated: Lotfi learned, performed, and taught the radif that underpins improvisation in his musical tradition.

• Shahram NazeriRelated: The radif supplies melodic material and conventions underlying the musical language Nazeri uses.

• Divan-i Shams-i TabriziRelated: Repeated endings help give many Divan ghazals their musical and incantatory movement.

• HayedehRelated: The radif supplies melodic material behind the classical tradition she performed.