Improvised Variations of Sami Al-Shawa

Abstract

This study aims to detect the most improvised performing method in Sami Al-Shawwa’s works through taking some samples from his musical recordings and highlighting the hardihood creative aspects in those samples, in a scientific thoughtful manner, while working on referencing those methods to special symbols. In fact, those familiar with Sami Al-Shawwa’s recordings may notices that they are full of diverse aesthetics and additions that show his to the moment creative abilities, and emphasize the need to pay more attention to this state of the art musical heritage and use it in a new musical inherent creative models. The results of this study included knowledge of the modalities of some improvised varieties at Sami Al-Shawwa’s performance that form a strong motivation for more deep and studious search discusses the characteristic of the Arabic Music performance and its integration with the contemporary music through high-level scientific methods. Keywords: Musical variations, improvisation, Sami Shawa, violin