TheCuddlyDevil - 7-10-2007 at 02:56 PM
Long time ago I was working on a sikah piece and didn't finish it. It bothered me for some reason.
Later on I read somewhere (I think Prunka's site) that in Sikah the dominant is very much emphasized, which was one of the problems I had with the
piece. The piece kept dragging me back to the dominant (and in the end, I followed this melodic cadence), and I was afraid I would be treating the
dominant as a new tonic, which would mean I wasn't working in sikah anymore.
I just want confirmation of what I'm doing.
Another thing, should I be following certain maqams? Or should I just use my ear to find the notes I like? Because so far the the set of notes I'm
using does not fall within any of the maqams on maqamworld, and I hear that Arabic music is one of the few musical arts that actually follow the
theory rather than the practice, hence certain maqams avoided. (I found this on a great site which had a name close to "The Classic Society of Arab
Arts")
Another thing, I was playing Nahawand on guitar (didn't have an oud) and it kept dragging back to the 2nd note, not the 1st note. Is the 2nd note a
tonic now?
Thanks for any help.
Marina - 7-11-2007 at 01:09 PM
If you make the 2nd note of nahawand C your tonic, you got makam lami: D, bE, F, G, bA, bB, C + D.
;-)
Or if you were in nahavand hasas (harmonic minor), you get maqam tarz nawin:
D, bE, F, G, bA, B, C + D (kurd +hijaz G)
In saba if you change your tonic to F ("dominant" of saba), you simply get hijaz al F.
So just go back to your saba tonic at the end, and you are still in "saba taqasim".
;-)