Sori (music)

The sori (Persian: سُری) is a symbol that corresponds to a quarter step higher in tone in Persian traditional music.^[1] It is written as a ">" sign, crossed by two vertical lines, and can be used like an accidental.

Notes for the white string of a on a 25-fret Setar,tuned to C. Instrument has both koron and sori notes.

In the early 20th century, Iranian master musician Alinaghi Vaziri established this sign for the sori for use in written Persian music using standard western notation.^[2]

Character representation of this accidental symbol together with Koron^[3] encoding (encoded as U+1D1E9 and U+1D1EA) microtones used in modern Iranian classical music added to the Unicode standard^[4] in Version 14.0.0.^[5]

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  Sori used in musical notation

See also

• Persian traditional music
• Dastgah
• Quarter tone
• koron

External links

• Persian accidentals in the SMuFL glyph (Standard Music Font Layout)