Nidaa ABOU MRAD, Generative modal vectors

Abstract

This paper is about establishing a model for a modal generative grammar. It concerns a modal semiotics that assigns to each salient note of a monadic phrase a
distinctive trait formed of two concurrent nuclei based on chains of thirds. Such an
essentially structural reduction, however, could not be sufficient for the dynamic
representation of the foundations of melodic formulas and for the syntactic elaboration of the monodies. The paper therefore proposes to complete this perception of
the modal phenomenon by resorting to the notion of generative modal vector.
Linking together the pairs of nuclear traits of prominent notes, such vectors act as
underlying grammatical indicators for the temporal sequencing of these notes. Such
rewriting expresses itself in the form of a vectorial addition. This process is exemplified on the basis of a grammatical modal analysis/rewriting of a Syrian hymn
from the traditional Maronite liturgy.