Damascus-SANA
With the aim of implementing a plan to preserve the Al-Qudud Aleppine component, including organizing cultural events and dialogues, the Salhi Al-Wadi Hall at the Higher Institute of Music hosted a musical symposium entitled “Al-Qudoud Aleppine Memory and Creativity” by the music researcher Dr. Muhammad Qadri Dalal.
The seminar, which was moderated by researcher Reem Al-Ibrahim from the Living Heritage Program in the Syrian Municipality, began by introducing the institute’s students to the talented musical figure represented by Dr. Qadri Dalal and his research and works that enrich the Syrian music scene. He is the son of the city of Aleppo, born in 1946. An in-depth and skilled oud player, composer and composer who has achieved a high position locally, Arably and internationally.
Dr. Qadri Dalal, during the seminar that was held with him via the Skype platform, while he is currently in the United States of America, gave a historical overview of the emergence of Qudud and its cultural and societal carrier, which enabled the people of Aleppo and the Syrians to carry this Syrian cultural element as an authentic heritage element to the world through their love for it and their adherence to their music and voices The exceptional in this field to be registered on the representative list of UNESCO at the end of 2021.
During the axes, Dr. Qadri Dalal dealt with the specialized scientific status of Al-Qudud, reviewing examples of the most famous Al-Qudud Aleppine and the reason for its affiliation to the city of Aleppo, where its people preserved it, although it may be for other Syrian cities, in addition to the most famous creators of Al-Qudud, composers and singers, including the late great Sabah Fakhri, who presented Al-Qudud Aleppine in his style. Your creative.
At the conclusion of the symposium, Dr. Kadri Dalal recommended the necessity of preserving this Syrian heritage element by preserving the classical maqams and rhythms, while leaving the freedom to address the melodic sentences created by the practitioner of this element and to perform it optimally through professional bands, continuous training on it, and the selection of what is suitable to be heard in the place and time. In addition to the importance of documentation and music notation and conducting specialized research in this field to develop it continuously.
It is noteworthy that Dr. Muhammad Qadri Dalal composed dozens of pieces for the oud and the orchestra in the traditional “classical” style, and many Syrian and Arab singers sang for him, including Shadi Jamil, Omar Sarmini, Aboud Bashir and Omar Sabouni. He documented more than 300 religious melodies in musical notation and recorded about seventy of them under the supervision and support of the General Secretariat of the celebration. Aleppo, the capital of Islamic culture.
He is the recipient of several awards, as in 1988 the Charles Crowe Academy in Paris awarded him the André Chauvenir Award for his first record “Aleppo..Syria.” The Syrian Song Festival in 1997 and the Artists Syndicate in 2000 honored him and awarded him the gold and silver medal for his radio work “A Story and a Richness,” in which he composed 50 songs for children. She carried the traditional tint and served as director of the Arab Music Institute in Aleppo affiliated to the Ministry of Culture for five years.
Rasha Mahfoud
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