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Jana Arabzadeh1
Abstract
People have always been living between many spaces and their beings are related to the being of these
spaces. Some times these spaces are human made or the virtual and imaginary spaces that comes
from, the dream of men of Utopia and the lost paradise. We give a character to a space and place by
living in it, and the reason of creating is passing through these images. If man stops searching for the
Utopia, then the source of his believes shall die, and Art is the motive which creates such spaces that
are not dreams but the mere realities. Human knowledge of these realities is because of transmission
of creative minds through manyplies of his eternity memories.
What I have tried to explain within this research is the transmission of mind through million virtual
spaces of literature and music, and the appearance of these virtual spaces in realities which are the
mere facts that makes real or virtual Architecture. There is a great relation between Architecture and
Music, that if the buildings made of great theories and concept, a person stands before it can hear the
melody of it (Architectural Music), or by hearing a piece of music, a person could walk through a
virtual space with unbelievable beauty (Musical Architecture). The space relation between
Architecture and literature is the transmission between million words and phrases and making a sense
of knowledge and feeling for the reader whom can feel himself in a specific time, period and place of
that piece. Also the main aim of the relation between Music and literature is to reach to a virtual
space, because it is a transmission between dream to a dream which are made of human wishes and
identicalness. At the end the result of the triple relation of Architecture, Music and literature is
reaching to a trinity and making another virtual space such as Azan or Opera.
Introduction
Lonliness and separation from the world are the virtues of human existence and since man cannot
stand this lonliness, he has no choice but try to find relations and reaching to a unity(1). Only by
working and understanding, a man can have a relation with the world. Man produces things during
the process of creation he examins his powers on the flesh of things. Erich From said: " human feels
the world, and this kind of mentally and sensitive understanding is because of the power of wisdom
and love. The power of wisdom gives the strength to a person to have an influence from out side to
the inside and reach to his aim, meanwhile the power of love to remove the wall of separation
between himself and the others and understand them(2). Movement creation and searching are the first
steps of human in proving his mental believes in Moral theologies, Geometrical shapes, Elegant
volumes, Art and .(3)
As we see there are phrases that has a definite meaning and it is possible to use these phrases. We
reach to million theories, and believes and reaching to all these volume of meanings lead us to
another place with different feeling which we can call it "the sense of space"
- M.A. Architecture from Azad University, olum & tahghighat branch / Iran-Tehran /
e-mail: J.arabzadeh@yahoo.com
Figure 2- sense of an
imaginative space
space
Literature and
music
Architecture and
literature
Architecture and
music
real. Spaces around him. So if we begins to think like this, we shall be able to see and use the musical
tythem first in our view to our life, and the in the spaces around us and at last in the architecture.
When we get to know music, we are able to make a relation between, anything that we hear at any
time, a moment before of even in the following moments, with the things in the environment around
us, such as buildings, people, communications and , and feel a desiered sense, or a sadness , or
even a noticeable influence in ourself. When human get to have a deep hearing, then when they stand
before a building they are able to hear the melody that comes from its construction, shape, style or
even spirit, and at that time they feel that the building itself is playing a piece of music which has
been manifested in the viewers mind. (9)
As the composers are different according to their interests, the architects are different too. But since
abything in this world is in relation with everything, we can find architects and composers with the
same feeling and interests that are saying same things, that follow same rhythms in their designs. We
can find building that reminds us of a specific classical or even modern or music. We can see
volums with such an extraordinary fractures and oppositions that are the same as accords of a
symphonie, partitas and concertos, also we can find peacefull buildings that remind us of pleasant and
calm melodies. Therefore we can express that the creation source of architecture and music derivers
from the same place and a unique thoughts are beyond their creation.
Now I will explain the spaces of architecture and music in the following two categories.
Space in music
Music of Architecture
Architecture of Music
Sound of Building
Virtual space inside a
piece of music
Song
Architeacture
of an
instrument
Music
Figure 3- Architecture of an
Instrument
Setar, Kamanche , and violin also the shepherds horn that was
made of animal horn was the base of creating whistle Instrument
and the empty trunk was the concept of making Tonback(drum) (11).
As time passes and technology enters to human life, human found
new types of musical instruments and lately they create electronic
music by using electronic instruments and they were the cause of a
new line of science physics which lead us to radio electric.
(Figure 4)
Figure 5- tune of a As
I
building
said before each building has a tune and we find any piece of music in a real space. One of the most
incredible classical pieces is the last Movement of second partita of Buch named as "ciaccone" .
Because of its unexplainable perfection and details it is Possible to compare it with a Gothic
Cathedral (13) Because of too many extraordinary feeling in this piece such as sense of beauty,
frightening, grief,.. a deep imagination begin to grow in the listeners mind and the vision of its
virtual space shall be as a space filled with unpleasantness and grief which is a wasteland where man
can think about himself, so here the waste land itself is the virtual space. The acsan in the ciaccone.
Piece from the MI cord to the Sol cord are the same as the fractures of a monument . (Figure 5)
Since Bach was one of the leaders of modern movement in classical music , therefore his pieces are as
a media in creating new worlds. Those real spaces (monuments) have four sections ,also we have to
play accords of this piece in all 4 cords which remind us of the strong and heavy constructional
factors of a monument and finally the highest point in this piece are as the bells of a cathedral which
cries to say: see me, I live ,I shall create, and I shall build a world which is beyond human desires
and imagination. (14)
The creation of architecture drives from the artistic imagination and mentally images of artist which
find its way by the help of the principles equivocalness in to the building and lead itself to the limits
of examination and wresting, where music have a high and great place. (15)
Therefore the result is : no matter how we look and understand . these matters, there is always a great
relation between architecture and music and even we can claim that these two are one.
3-3-similar points of Architecture and music
-the same real and virtual spaces both in architecture and music
-vulgar music = native architecture
-religious music = religious architecture
-classical and permanent music = classical and ancient architecture
-Imitation and similarity both in architecture and music
-tallness and high in architecture = acsan and ascendant in music
-establishing rhythm on the elevation of a building = rhythm and time in music
- Darvish: An indigentman
-Character of virtual space: A grief virtual space which has the factor
of time, Beginning of modernity which darkness grows in to
spirituality and took away all desires. (Figure 15)
4-3 similar points of architecture and literature
other. (32) When music and poem accompany each other, they make song and the participation of these
two type of virtual spaces creates a third condition, which is the highest point of human feelings, the
kind of inner feeling of a song is different according to its poet or song writer or but the virtual
space, which is the space of a song is the nearest to exactness and real space. (33)
space
music
The best example of this trinity can be seen in Azan and also in the opera.
literature
6-1 Azan
Azan is a call for prayers to do their religious duties. The muezzin is
responsible for calling the faithful to worship in the mosque while doing his
duty for calling, his hands cupping his mouth. The call consists of seven very
specific phrases:
-Aallau Akbar, Allahu Akbar: " God is most great, God is most great"
-Ash-hadu anna Muhammad rasul Allah:" I testify that Mohammad is the
prophet of God "(twice);
-Hayaala as-salat, hayaala as salat: "Come to prayer" (twice);
-Hayaala al-falah , hayaala al-falah: "Come to salvation or deliverance"
(twice);
-Allahu Akbar:"God is most great" (twice);
Figure 16- Azan, calling
-La ilaha ilal-Lah:" There is not god but God";(34) (Figure 16)
by Moazen
The highest symbol of this trinity can be seen in Azan a spiritual an heavenly
music that along its musical and literary virtual spaces, has buit a virtual
volume of architecture which the exact sample of it can be seen in the real spaces of mosque or any
religious place. Now if in a morning we see the minirats of a mosque or any spiritual architectural
element, although we have not heard Azan yet, a tune begins to whistle in our inner spaces that is the
virtual sound of Azan in human mind.
6-2 Opera
Musical drama made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment, overtures, and interludes.
Opera was invented at the end of the 16th century in an attempt by the Camerata1 to imitate ancient
Greek drama, which was known to have largely sung or chanted.(35). Like a play, opera is a story acted
out onstage. But in an opera the performers usually dont speak at all. Their songs dont happen
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between conversations, but rather their songs are the conversations. The music an orchestra plays for
an opera is as important to the overall effect as the singing.(36)
In the opera same as azan we have a trinity of all
three spaces. The virtual spaces of music and
literature is between the literary songs of singers
and the musicians. They try to explore all these
spaces within their acts, therefore an imaginary
virtual space shall be pictured in the audiences
mind, mean while the real space it self is the
architecture of the stage and also the opera building
with its specific architectural details, built only for
a special reason and that is to make the heavenly
senses in human alive so they can be relived only
for few hours from this world. So we get the result
that at the same time the two virtual spaces of
literature and music and the real space of
Figure 17- scene of an Opera
architecture is conformed on one another and make
a trinity. (Figure 17)
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