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From: | Lukas-Fabian Moser |
Subject: | Re: The hel-arabic.ly file story... |
Date: | Thu, 5 Jan 2023 17:13:03 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 |
Hello Hassan,
Hello I am hassan EL FATIHI author of hel-arabic.ly, if you have questions or changes to propose I am at your disposal. I have been practicing Arabic music for more than thirty years, in addition I am a computer scientist which pushed me to program hel-arabic.ly
What's most surprising to me in hel-arabic.ly is the use of the sharp.slashslash.stemstemstem accidental. In all Arabic music I know (and also in arabic.ly, in https://www.w3.org/2021/03/smufl14/tables/arabic-accidentals.html, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_tone_system and other sources), this is used to designate a sharpening by a 3/4 tone - which is also quite logical, designating the progression from 1/4 tone, 1/2=2/4 tones, 3/4 tones by an increasing number of vertical lines in the accidental glyph.
In hel-arabic.ly, the symbol is used for the huge amount of raising by 7/2 tones (which is more than half an octave). What musical practice does this relate to? Can you give examples in the literature, pieces/maqams/... in which this kind of alteration is being used?
Lukas
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