The Contextual Hardening of Soft Intervals and the Equal-Tempered Makam: Two Interrelated Modernization Forms in the Greek Urban Popular Music during the Interwar Period

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Εθνομουσικολογία και Πολιτισμική Ανθρωπολογία
Library of the School of Philosophy
Deposit date:
2018-11-20
Year:
2018
Author:
Delegos Spiros
Supervisors info:
Λάμπρος Λιάβας, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Αναστάσιος Χαψούλας, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Μαρία Παπαπαύλου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Ε.Κ.Π.Α.
Original Title:
Η εκ των συνθηκών σκλήρυνση των μαλακών διαστημάτων και το ίσα συγκερασμένο μακάμ: δύο αλληλένδετες μορφές εκσυγχρονισμού στον χώρο της ελληνικής αστικής λαϊκής μουσικής του Μεσοπολέμου
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The Contextual Hardening of Soft Intervals and the Equal-Tempered Makam: Two Interrelated Modernization Forms in the Greek Urban Popular Music during the Interwar Period
Summary:
The current study focuses on that musical genre which, in the context of the Greek Urban Popular Music during the Interwar period, is described by the Greek discourse as “Rebetiko”.
We introduce a relatively new categorization of Rebetiko repertoire in terms of style. From the perspective of Historical Ethnomusicology, after having listened to a large corpus of gramophone recordings of the Interwar period, the most representative music pieces are chosen firstly in order to be documented in transcriptions and secondly to be analyzed, co-examined and interpreted within the socio-cultural context. The recordings are regarded as primary elements of the examined musical culture.
In this regard, we prove that the Interwar Rebetiko is based on the Ottoman makam in its popular version. Using the Ottoman-Turkish makam theoretical system as the main analytical tool, the modal entity of Rast as case study and deconstructing the relevant dipoles Theory-Practice and Orality-Literacy to the extent possible, we feature the makam identification conditions in general and more specifically those related to Rast makam.
From the above, two interrelated modernization forms in the Rebetiko context are proven: “the Contextual Hardening of Soft Intervals” and “the Equal Tempered Makam”. The former concerns the transition and adaptation of the “soft” and “hard” intervals from the repertoire of Anatolia (1st category) towards the equal tempered intervallic context of the repertoire of the three-course bouzouki style (2nd category); in practice intervals corresponding to the “hard” ones. That is, the phenomenon that describes how the inherently flowing soft interval is captured in its hard counterpart of the equal temperament. The latter expresses a secondary form of makam of syncretic character in order to show its modernized version and its continuity, beyond terms, such as “dromos”, which demonstrates different and various meanings, despite its sufficient literal and figurative conceptual aspect.
Main subject category:
Geography - Anthropology - Folklore
Keywords:
Historical Ethnomusicology, modernization, makam, Interwar period, Rebetiko, soft intervals, hard intervals, equal temperament
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
107
Number of pages:
160
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