Exploration, en composition musicale, des rencontres entre musiques de l’Occident et du Moyen-Orient, particulièrement d’Iran
The purpose of this master’s dissertation is to explore musical encounters between Middle Eastern music (especially Persian classical music) and Western music, with the purpose of preserving the aesthetic elements of each one. I tried, as well, to find musical tendencies that are common between these heterogeneous musical systems in order to achieve a formal unity in a unique language. This master dissertation will deal with the analysis of the musical pieces, which I have been composing during the Master’s instrumental composition program at the Université de Montréal: Heterotopia, The Substantial Movement, Kamalto and Cypress Mourning. What is considered in the analysis of the mentioned works particularly focuses on the usage of modal materials, morphemes, rhythmic cycles, improvisation, ornamentation and the combination of pitch systems, as well, in more general ways, on the textures and the forms. Keywords: Heterophony, Ethnomusicology, Iran, East-West, pitch system, Persian classical music, Dastgâh, Maqâm, oriental modes, oriental instruments, Kamancheh, multiculturalism, Tradition and modernity, Extended techniques.
Dastgâh Maqâm Heterophony Ethnomusicology Iran East-West Pitch system Persian classical music Oriental modes Oriental instruments Kamancheh Multiculturalism Tradition and modernity Extended techniques Persian classical music