PERSPECTIVES AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS BETWEEN OCCIDENT AND ORIENT
PERSPECTIVES AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS BETWEEN OCCIDENT AND ORIENT

Summary/Abstract: Impact of occidental culture on oriental music is recent, and so is the discovery of oriental music by occidental composers. Between modal and tonal systems, from occidental rhythmic span to oriental rhythmical diversity, from the instrumentation of the modern symphony orchestra to the oriental small group of Takht, from the various and ample genres of Occidental music to the accompanied monody specific to oriental music, composers of the twentieth century (both Occidental and Oriental) have searched for the ideal formula to understand, and then to introduce in their creations the atmosphere of another culture. If expressive meaning may be the same (sadness, joy, melancholy, etc.), the expression and, above all, the esthesic capabilities of each cultural public differ significantly . Therefore, the two musical cultures can meet tangentially, they can share certain typical elements, but without “their voices ever to be mistaken, or to lose their own tone and register” (J. During).

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