عنوان

A Performance Guide to the Syrian Composer Nouri Iskandar's 'Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra' with Emphasis on Its Syrian and Assyrian Roots

شماره

TL53164

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Performance Guide to the Syrian Composer Nouri Iskandar's 'Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra' with Emphasis on Its Syrian and Assyrian Roots

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Zeidieh, Ghyas

نام ساير پديدآوران

Arnone, Anthony

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Iowa

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

197 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

D.M.A.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Iowa

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

Research on Syrian music illuminates connections across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Many civilizations left their mark on the culture after conquering the area and combining old traditions with new identities. These influences created distinct features in Syrian music that are found nowhere else in the world and are now threatened by the Syrian Civil War.  Although there are not many pieces for cello by Syrian composers of the twentiethcentury, one of the country's most famous composers, Nouri Iskandar, wrote a Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra. This concerto was the first time a Syrian composer wrote a concerto for a Western instrument. The cello in the Arab world was an instrument typically used in secondary roles, such as accompaniment or to sustain pedal tones while other instruments such as the oud, qanun, or nay had soloistic roles, performing the cadenzas or taqsim. In the Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Iskandar's main goal was to deploy the Western forms and rules of writing without losing the elements, characteristics, style, and uniqueness of the Arabic maqams. Due to the lack of publishing houses in Syria, high printing costs, and low demand for music in the past thirty years, classical scores by Syrian composers are not readily available, resulting in a lack of performances by younger generations of musicians. Nouri Iskandar is well into his eighties. Given his age, it is critical to be able to work with him now on performance practices of his piece before his contributions are lost.  While preparing this essay, I worked with Iskandar and interviewed him. I also studied the style and ornamentation of Syrian classical music with musicians of the Syrian Arab Orchestra and other pedagogues at the Damascus Conservatory. Dynamics, style, terminology, quarter-tones, scales, and ornamentation will be discussed in this essay, along with a performance analysis of how to properly perform this unique music.  My goal is to bring the concerto to the attention of the international community while diversifying available repertoire for cellists. Since the original manuscript lacks certain performance details, this document provides cellists with a performance edition containing suitable bowings, fingerings, registers, and articulations.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Music

اصطلاح موضوعی

Music history

اصطلاح موضوعی

Music theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Musical composition

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Zeidieh, Ghyas

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Arnone, Anthony

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

The University of Iowa

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y