The “Musicana” session, as part of the activities of the 41st session of the Sharjah International Book Fair, hosted the Emirati music researcher Ali Al-Abdan and the Italian cellist Elijah Capagli, underlining that music remains a common human language that refines the soul of the individual, treats his soul and expresses his feelings with tones.
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The speakers stressed that music remains a common human language that refines the soul of the individual, treats his soul and expresses his feelings in tones and that allows a person to say what words cannot express in various situations. and occasions, in addition to its ability to represent the cultures of peoples and their cultural diversity.
This took place in a session entitled “Our Music”, as part of the activities of the 41st session of the Sharjah International Book Fair, in which the Emirati music researcher Ali Al-Abdan and the Italian cellist Elijah Capagli participated in the exhibition guest of honor program, spoken and moderated by Dr. Walaa Al-Shehhi.
Italian pianist Elijah Capagli explained that he had chosen the path of music from childhood to express his feelings, and not to resort to writing stories until he lived with music and had the experience of playing with a band for 4 decades, until music became part of her personality, helping her to communicate with herself as a language coming from the depths of her soul.
She talked about her experience with writing her first storybook, in which she represented part of her biography and history with her father, who lost her sight, and how she was able, through play, to bring happiness to her heart and give it some happiness through music therapy, noting that the experience with her father has taught her that those who do not have the ability to read words can find the equivalent of a blessing in listening to music and the positive effect of reading.
In turn, Emirati researcher Ali Al-Abdan spoke about his vision of music, explaining that it comes from within to represent feelings of joy, sadness, confusion and other feelings that musicians express through Arab maqams that differ in their ability. to represent the imagination and feeling of a person that cannot be expressed in words.
Al-Abdan believed that music, in its simplest definition, was humanly organized sound, to the extent that most of the arts aspire to attain the rank of music in terms of the ability to express themselves abstractly away from words as in writing and away from lines and colors as in drawing or materials used in the sculpture arts.
He stressed that Arabic music was behind the art of poetry and poetry continued to the fore, so music occupied a secondary function, until the Arab musicians of the modern era created instrumental music and independent songs and mentioned the names of a group of musicians and composers famous for their musical composition, such as Iraqi oud player Munir Bishr and others. .
Al-Abdan addressed an aspect of the history of singing and music in the UAE through his experience in documenting and tracing the history of artists and production houses who began recording the first records of Emirati singers from the 1950s. last, and chose from the company “Dubai Phone”, which began producing its records in 1952.
