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LIBRO DE ACTAS (pdf) - Universidad de Sevilla

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Retentional Syntagmatic Network, and its Use in Motivic Analysis of Maqam Improvisation<br />

The first line of Figure 4 shows the main pattern that is played in most of the phrases in<br />

the improvisation, and based on an oscillations between two states centered respectively<br />

around A (ad<strong>de</strong>d with Bb, and represented in green) and G (with optional F, and<br />

represented in red), conclu<strong>de</strong>d by a <strong>de</strong>scending line, in black, from A to D. This<br />

<strong>de</strong>scending line constitutes the emblematic patterns related to the Mhayyer Sîkâa maqam,<br />

and can be played in various <strong>de</strong>grees of reduction through a variety of different possible<br />

traversals of the black and purple syntagmatic network.<br />

The second line shows a phrase that is repeated twice in the improvisation – plus another<br />

more subtle occurrence–and based on an ascending (blue) line followed by the same<br />

paradigmatic <strong>de</strong>scending line aforementioned.<br />

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Figure 3: Transcription and motivic analysis of the first part of a improvisation by the Nay flute master Mohamed<br />

Saâda on the Mhayyer Sîkâa maqam (Lartillot & Ayari, 2011). The lines ad<strong>de</strong>d in the score show occurrences of<br />

motivic patterns, <strong>de</strong>scribed in Figure 4.<br />

Figure 4: Motivic patterns inferred from the analysis of the improvisation shown in Figure 3.<br />

This <strong>de</strong>tailed analysis of the transcription shows how parallel motivic un<strong>de</strong>rstanding can be<br />

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