Shaahin's beautiful shur.mp3

Hello, Shaahin and everyone, and I must express my appreciation
for a truly beautiful peace, your music in Shur dastgah.

<http://www.xenharmony.org/mp3/shaahin/shur.mp3>

The melody, rhythm, instrumentation, and overall ensemble are
really exquisite. There's a portion around 0:28-0:37 where there's
a melodic figure that reminds me of a European dance called the
Trotto. I'm not sure if the maye or modal ethos is similar, but to
me one sort of recalls the other. (The Trotto is in a Western
European Dorian, which has two symmetrical and disjunct tetrachords
like the lower tetrachord of Nava dastgah, e.g. C D Eb F G A Bb C).
Of course, this kind of European mode doesn't have the neutral
intervals of Persian maye or dastgah.

Anyway, I'd be very curious about the intonation: but it above all
sounded very natural and pleasing.

I should mention that this kind of sound might seem familiar to me
in part because in recent decades European groups have sought to
reclaim or reinvent traditional improvisational practices by looking
to modern Near Eastern techniques suggesting possible historical ways
of interpreting or improvising around a melody in parts of medieval
Europe.

You mention that this piece is based on a folk melody of the Shiraz
region -- and I realize that this is a place connected with the great
philosopher and music theorist Qutb-al-Din al-Shirazi, whose tuning
of the Chahargah or Hijaz tetrachord I often favor.

Thank you for such a musical gift, an ornament to our community.

Peace and love,

Margo

Shaahin-

I second Margo on this! Bravo! I really enjoyed your piece very much....

In case you are interested, something I did for the play 'Peer Gynt' in a
neo-arabic style:

http://www.akjmusic.com/audio/harem_underscore.ogg

-Aaron

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 9:43 pm, Margo Schulter wrote:
> Hello, Shaahin and everyone, and I must express my appreciation
> for a truly beautiful peace, your music in Shur dastgah.
>
> <http://www.xenharmony.org/mp3/shaahin/shur.mp3>
>
> The melody, rhythm, instrumentation, and overall ensemble are
> really exquisite. There's a portion around 0:28-0:37 where there's
> a melodic figure that reminds me of a European dance called the
> Trotto. I'm not sure if the maye or modal ethos is similar, but to
> me one sort of recalls the other. (The Trotto is in a Western
> European Dorian, which has two symmetrical and disjunct tetrachords
> like the lower tetrachord of Nava dastgah, e.g. C D Eb F G A Bb C).
> Of course, this kind of European mode doesn't have the neutral
> intervals of Persian maye or dastgah.
>
> Anyway, I'd be very curious about the intonation: but it above all
> sounded very natural and pleasing.
>
> I should mention that this kind of sound might seem familiar to me
> in part because in recent decades European groups have sought to
> reclaim or reinvent traditional improvisational practices by looking
> to modern Near Eastern techniques suggesting possible historical ways
> of interpreting or improvising around a melody in parts of medieval
> Europe.
>
> You mention that this piece is based on a folk melody of the Shiraz
> region -- and I realize that this is a place connected with the great
> philosopher and music theorist Qutb-al-Din al-Shirazi, whose tuning
> of the Chahargah or Hijaz tetrachord I often favor.
>
> Thank you for such a musical gift, an ornament to our community.
>
> Peace and love,
>
> Margo
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