A FREE AND ORIGINAL SYNTHESIS USING WESTERN AND AZERBAIJANI MUSICAL MODES: ELEKBER ESGEROV’S DANCE MELODIES

Abstract

Before the spoken language emerged, people communicated with their hands, feet and facial expressions, transferred their thoughts to each other, and the phenomenon which is called dance today was born. Until recently, people's works on this subject were not perceived as art because they did not have the feature of being art. But in modern times dance has become a form of art.

In the study, documents produced in the ancient history of Western and Azerbaijani folk dances were examined and musical melodies were analyzed. Here, the dances and melodies performed in accordance with the traditions and ceremonies of France, Spain, Germany, England, Poland and other European countries are examined, and information about their constitutive musical characteristics is presented.

In the study, the history of the art of dance and Azerbaijani dance genres were examined, information was given about several ancient Azerbaijani dances, the notes of the dance melodies composed for wind instruments (such as clarinet, balaban and flute) by composer Alakbar Asgarov, the popular and innovative artist of the Azerbaijani people, were examined, and perspectives on various periods in relation to the development of the art of dance is presented.

Except for the book I published in 2018 by scoring Alakbar Asgarov's compositions from Azerbaijan state television archives and the gramophone records, no work has been done on the composer, either in Azerbaijan or abroad. In this context, this study is completely original and has the distinction of being the first study in the literature on the subject.