Part two

PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSING MUSIC
IN AZERBAIJANI MODES IN FOLK STYLE

I. STRUCTURE OF PERFECT QUARTES

Then the section called "Shur-Shakhnaz" follows. While composing "Shur-Shakhnaz", it is necessary to finish the first phrase in the beginning of the 2-nd bar in the upper quarte of the tonic.

Response phrase forms a half cadence in the same degree in the beginning of the 4-th bar.

It is necessary to combine a response sentence with the above given sentence, which is to end in the keynote supertonic in the 8-th bar (in the main tone third).

Then it is necessary to repeat the first sentence of "Shur-Shakhnaz" and combine it with the response sentence of "Maye-Shur".

Example to the 2-nd expansion of the composed melody:

Then comes the section called "Hijaz". The first phrase of "Hijaz" should, in all cases, begin with the tonic quinte, and it would be better to end the same phrase in the upper quarte of the tonic in the beginning of the 2-nd bar. The response phrase in the beginning of the 4-th bar ends in the same degree, too forming a half cadence.

The initial sentence requires a variant:

The response sentence may finish in the upper mediant, and very often in the tonic in the beginning of the 8-th bar.

In order to connect "Hijaz" with "Maye-Shur" it is necessary to repeat "Zamin-Khara" to the end.

 

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