Le chant de la suhlapa assyro-chaldéenne. Enregistrement, transcription et analyse des intonations de tradition orale

This study aimed to do an analysis of traditional assyrian-chaldean sequences from the directory of the liturgy services of this tradition, and to bring out the modal systematic. Before suggesting it, there was a limited historical approach of the assyrian-chaldean origin and a brief reminder of the main axes of this church's liturgy, and its most important schools. A three-steps-transcription of the sequences was suggested - as performed by Monsignor 'Afram B(e)di- that's: etic, coded emic and coded modeled score. Then the musical analysis with the intonation formulas, the cadences, and a degrees' count that helped finding out the scale with the help of a software called PRAAT. At the end, a synthetic outline of the directory's modal typology was proposed. It turned out the melodies' subjugation to the common norms of the Near and Middle-East, particularly the predominance of the zalzalian gender (that divides the exact fourth into two neutral seconds and a major one) and the organization of the modal topography in tetra-cords.