Editing Persians (section)

===Music===
{{Main|Persian traditional music}}
[[File:Dancers and musicians on a Sasanian bowl.jpg|thumb|Dancers and musical instrument players depicted on a [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] silver bowl from the 5th-7th century AD.]]

According to the accounts reported by Xenophon, a great number of singers were present at the Achaemenid court. However, little information is available from the music of that era. The music scene of the Sasanian Empire has a more available and detailed documentation than the earlier periods, and is especially more evident within the context of [[Zoroastrian music|Zoroastrian musical rituals]].<ref name=EI-mhphi>{{harv|Lawergren|2009}} iv. First millennium C.E. (1) Sasanian music, 224–651.</ref> Overall, [[Sasanian music]] was influential and was adopted in the subsequent eras.<ref>{{cite book |title=Islamic art and spirituality |author=Seyyed Hossein Nasr |publisher=SUNY Press |year=1987 |pages=3–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBu6gWcT0DsC&q=Sassanid+music&pg=PA3 |isbn=9780887061745}}</ref>

Iranian music, as a whole, utilizes a variety of musical instruments that are unique to the region, and has remarkably evolved since the ancient and medieval times. In traditional Sasanian music, the [[octave]] was divided into seventeen tones. By the end of the 13th century, Iranian music also maintained a twelve-interval octave, which resembled the western counterparts.<ref name=music>{{cite book |title=The American history and encyclopedia of music |author1=Janet M. Green |author2=Josephine Thrall |publisher=I. Squire |year=1908 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanhistory08unkngoog/page/n100 55]–58 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanhistory08unkngoog|quote=music of persia. }}</ref>