Jean During

Jean During (born 1947) is a French musician and ethnomusicologist specialising in music from the nations of the East especially Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan. A commentator on the Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures, he is the Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and a professor at the University of Strasbourg.

Works

Albums

• Daramad-E Dovvom (Metric Pieces By Jean During) (2013)
• The Uighur Qumul Muqam of Xinjiang, China (2014)

Books

In English

• The Spirit of Sounds: The Unique Art of Ostad Elahi (1895–1974) (2003)
• Resonance: The Musical Legacy of Ostad Elahi (2016)

• The art of Persian music (Washington, D.C. : Mage Publishers, 1991)

In French

• La musique traditionnelle de l'Azerbayjan et la science des muqâms [Traditional Music of Azerbaijan and the Science of Muqâms] (Baden-Baden : Bouxwiller : V. Koerner, 1988)

• La musique iranienne : tradition et évolution [Iranian Music: Tradition and Evolution] (Paris : Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1984)

• Musique et extase : l'audition mystique dans la tradition soufie [Music and Ecstasy: Mystic Audition in the Sufi Tradition] (Paris : A. Michel, ©1988)

• Musiques d'Asie centrale : l'esprit d'une tradition [Musics of Central Asia: the spirit of a tradition] (Arles: City of Music: Actes sud, 1998.)

• Musique et mystique dans les traditions de l'Iran [Music and Mysticism in the Traditions of Iran] (Paris : Institut français de recherche en Iran, 1989)

• Quelque chose se passe: le sens de la tradition dans l'Orient musical [Something happens: the meaning of tradition in the musical Orient] (Lagrasse : Verdier, 1995)

• Azerbâyjân: musique traditionelle [Azerbaijan: traditional music] (Chant du monde : Distribution, Harmonia Mundi France,1989)