Revue des Traditions Musicales

Abstract

La littérature musicologique et ethnomusicologique nous offre un éventail de textes autour des pratiques musicales propres au système du maqām et au monde arabe en particulier. Force est d’y constater l’existence d’équivoques et de conflits terminologiques, notamment quant à la typologie des pratiques musicales. Plusieurs raisons en sont à l’origine, notamment le legs de l’orientalisme et de la musicologie comparée, l’emprise des lexiques occidentaux sur la nouvelle généra-tion de musicologues arabes, les confusions sémantiques et esthésiques et l’économie souvent faite des données systémiques et poïétiques intrinsèques. Les nouvelles approches analytiques qui s’inscrivent au sein de la musicologie générale des traditions mettent en exergue ces normes systémiques et poïétiques et replacent la référence à la notion complexe de tradition au centre de toute approche pertinente de ces pratiques.

Musicology and ethnomusicology have undergone many studies about performance in the maqām system, more specifically in the Arab world. Many problems emerged from these studies, such as diversity and conflicts in terminology concerning these practices. Several reasons seem to have offered to explain this ambiguity, noticeably the legacy of Orientalism and Comparative musicology, the influence of Western musicological lexicons on a new generation of Arabic musicologists and the semantic confusion often by-passing intrinsic characteristics of the system of Arab music. However, we propose an etymological study of the current notions, within the frame of the general musicology of traditions, with an emphasis on poïetic and systemic norms. The specificity of this discussion lies in putting Traditional performance – a complex concept – in the center of the approach to these practices.

Notice
Revue des Traditions Musicales was originally published in print by Antonine University Press. It is now being republished by Luminous Insights Publishing House as part of the journal’s transfer.

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