Approaches and Paradoxes of the Eight Byzantine Melodies and Arabic Maqams
Keywords:
Maqam, Musical scale, The main maqams in Arabic music, Ecclesiastical Greek Music, Byzantine ecclesiastical chants, Arabic Music, Races in Arabic Music, The Diatonic scale,The Chromatic scale, The enharmonic scale, Intervals of natural scale tones in Byzantine musicAbstract
Abstract
The music that originated in the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople is called Byzantine music and is based on eight main melodies. This study is intended to identify the similarities and differences between the eight Byzantine melodies and the Arab maqams. It also highlights the main characteristics of each type of the eight Byzantine melodies, inscribes some examples of them as Western music, and analyzes the genre combinations of Western music in the Byzantine musical composition.
The study provides a general illustration of the stacks of the Byzantine melodies and their counterpart stacks in the Arab musical scales.
The researcher analyzed the Arab musical scales and then analyzed all the Byzantine melodies with the corresponding scales in the Arabic music maqams for each of the eight Byzantine melodies.
