Music theorists from this modern-day country notated dynamics in a 16-column table and drew tunings as concentric arcs in the influential treatise Book of Modes. Loris Tjeknavorian wrote an opera with Orff’s help based on an epic from this country and scored a film starring the singer Googoosh. A musicologist from this modern-day country designed the sori and koron, shaped like an angular P and pilcrow, when introducing Western notation and (*) quarter-tone accidentals in the early 20th century. A 5-part suite’s free improvisation, tasnif, and rhythmic reng are based on modes like Shur and Dashti, two of the 12 avaz and dastgah associated with gusheh melodies collectively called this country’s radif. This modern-day country originated the double-bowled tar lute, santur dulcimer, and kamancheh fiddle. For 10 points, the reformer Ali-Naqi Vaziri and traditionalist Nur-Ali Borumand are from what country that outlawed Western music after an Islamic Revolution? ■END■
ANSWER: Iran [or Persia; accept Greater Iran or Greater Persia] (The first clue is about the 13th-century scholars Qutb ad-Din ash-Shirazi and Safi ad-Din al-Urmawi/Ormavi. Sources used: The Study of Ethnomusicology by Bruno Nettl and The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat.)
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