Revue des Traditions Musicales

Abstract

Cet article a pour propos une étude sémiotique de la théorie grammaticale générative transmodale qui transparaît de la décortication d'un traité inédit, écrit au XVI^e siècle par Muzaffar al-Hisnî et intitulé Le révélateur musicologique. Celui-ci a pour objectif apparent la description de dérivations complexes supposées régenter des relations génétiques entre les modes formulaires de la tradition référentielle, les réduisant à une source unique génotextuelle~: la structure originelle/fondamentale du mode-fondement Râst. Cependant et chemin faisant, ce manuscrit, comme son nom l'indique, révèle un autre ordre musical qui est celui des transformations grammaticales inhérentes à tout \textit{phénotexte} appartenant à cette langue transmodale.

This article proposes a semiotic study of the transmodal generative grammar theory that emerges through the analysis of an unpublished treatise, The Musicological Revealer, written in the sixteenth century by Muzaffar al-Hisnî. This book apparently aims to describe the complex derivations that govern generic relationships between the formula-based modes of the referential tradition, and to reducing those modes to a single genotextual source: the primordial/fundamental structure of the main mode Râst. However, and along the way, this manuscript, as its name suggests, reveals another musical process which is about grammatical transformations that produce all the phenotexts that belong to this transmodal language.

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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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