Memories of a painful “English bag” / a simple melody that lasted – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency – Art Group – Alireza Saeedi: The caption function is something like a book cover, in which the designer tries to inform the audience of a work by choosing elements, forms and layouts with the help of graphics and music. Circumstances that are sometimes presented to the audience in a very thoughtful, thoughtful and calculated way, and sometimes are created so carelessly and by performing a compulsory task that it distracts the viewer from the base with a visual effect.
What has become an excuse to return to the keyword “titration” is a review of the most enduring and memorable music related to some programs and works of cinema and television, which contains bittersweet memories for many audiences, and a return to them for us every time. Circumstances can bring a world of memories. The memory game, which was welcomed by the audience after its beginning and publication on Nowruz 1400, made us dedicate our souls and minds to it in the form of a weekly memory game on Fridays every week, and from its passage to the years when we feel better than these painful days. It was, let’s go.
“Memory play with lasting captions” is the title of an archival report series with the same approach, which you can follow on a weekly basis in the art group of Mehr News Agency.
In the thirty-third issue of this media narrative, we went to the music of the TV series “English Bag” written and directed by the late Seyed Zia-ud-Din Dori, composed by Farhad Fakhreddini, which was produced in 1999 and appeared in front of the audience some time after the First Channel. A socio-historical series that combines with a romantic approach to politics a part of the contemporary history of our country in the Pahlavi period.
A series in which the story of a young man who belongs to a traditional family is told, who with perseverance and the right decisions enters the parliament as a representative, but events take him in another direction and cause his political and family life to change. For him, the result is nothing but the destruction of his position.
Farhad Fakhreddini should be considered as one of the leaders in making music for lasting titles of TV series, which in this field, along with a few other composers, is one of the record holders in producing outstanding works. In this TV series, which at that time was literally in the line of the so-called “special A” series, and of course, this rating is not similar to what is presented in most TV works of this period as “special A”, actors such as Ali Mosafa, Leila Hatami, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, Sirus Georgia, Farhad Aslani, Saba Kamali, Qutbuddin Sadeghi, Fatemeh Nouri, Hesam Nawab Safavi, Reza Kianian, Jafar Bozorgi, Abdullah Esfandiari, Mansour Vala Magham, Peyman Shariati, Farshid Ebrahimian, Mehdi Taghinia, Hesam Honarmand, Hassan Hosseinian played the role. For many of these artists, this presence introduced a different and distinguished leaf of their artistic personality to the audience and caused them to enter a new chapter of their activities in the field of acting.
But what was able to play an undeniable role as one of the important components and indicators of the media introducing this series to the people, without a doubt, the soundtrack of the series, especially the caption music composed by Farhad Fakhreddini, was one of the most famous men in Iranian music. As one of the leaders in making music for lasting titles of TV series, we should know that in this field, along with a few other composers, he is one of the record holders in producing outstanding works, some of which we have already dealt with in this case.
Musicians who, with their exemplary genius and creativity in the field of film music, create melodies that have a lasting place as long as the mind helps, and perhaps in a day when nostalgia are fading and disappearing completely, these musics like Farhad Fakhreddini, who can heal the troubled minds that are strongly inclined towards memories and nostalgia these days.
In addition to the title music of the series, which in itself could have played an effective role in perpetuating the musical atmosphere of the work in the minds of the audience, this piece was “Autumn Patrol” by Alireza Ghorbani, which was considered as a memorable melody on behalf of the musical totality of the series. To take. When the song and the musical meaning and content of this song with characters such as Mastaneh and Mansour Adiban create narratives with the color and smell of love that still have an aura of its images mixed with pure music, in the minds of the famous sixties and maybe seventies Are left.
The title music of the series “English Bag” made by Farhad Fakhreddini is one of the most audible music of the titles in the Museum of Memories and Musical Nostalgia of a generation that in the beautiful and glorious museum of their memories has definitely considered a special and honorable place for the title music of this series. In fact, this sweet melody of music created by Farhad Fakhreddini was inspired by the most famous and popular melodies of the earliest Iranian music, which, without using the conventional and heavy intricacies contained in such orchestral textures, created beauties that can still be heard by any listener. Caress with music.
Mehrzad Danesh was one of the critics in the field of cinema and television who recently wrote in a part of his critique about the soundtrack and titration of the series “English Bag”: The music of this series is also one of its landmarks. The series shows various spaces from the village to the city, and this has given a significant variety to the texture of the music of the text, so much so that we hear the color of Darvishkhan and the prelude of Mahjoubi and Valsomusio Lumer in this series.
He continues: Farhad Fakhreddini was the creator of this heartwarming variety of audio, which also covered the final episodes of the series with the voice of Alireza Ghorbani, and almost for the first time used this talented singer of the National Orchestra of Iran at that time in the field of cinema and television. “My New Spring Patrol”, which was strongly mixed with the theme of the final episodes, doubled the charm of the series.
To listen to the song “Autumn Patrol” with the voice of Alireza Ghorbani Here Click.
Morteza Soroushnia and Hamid Haidarpanah, researchers in the field of music, also wrote in June 2012 about the components of the soundtrack and caption music of the series “English Bag”, especially in the field of reconstruction of memories with old songs: The music of the English bag series is a collection of memories; A treasure trove of memorable songs and melodies that for today’s generation are subconsciously reminiscent of the atmosphere of old Tehran and the music of that period. Of course, Farhad Fakhreddini himself said about the music of this collection that it was not difficult to compose it, and he referred more to his musical memory and based on the songs he heard and remembered as a child, and by re-arranging and recreating them, the music that is appropriate. The time of occurrence of the story is intended for it.
The music of the English bag series is a collection of memories; A treasure trove of memorable songs and melodies that subconsciously remind the present generation of the atmosphere of old Tehran and the music of that period The title track of a painting by Darvish Khan is called “Parichehr and Prizad”, which is one of the most famous and popular colors among Darvish Khan’s works. In arranging this work, Fakhreddini’s attention to preserving the sweetness and melody of the melody is evident. Avoidance of heavy and complex textures and soft and pleasant orchestration are the factors that have helped to highlight the beauties of Darvish Khan melody.
The final titration is a beautiful waltz by Alfred Jean-Baptiste Lumière, a French musician who came to Iran during the Qajar era and whose presence marked the beginning of fundamental changes in Iranian music. Although this piece has a waltz rhythm and was composed by a non-Iranian musician, the melodic movement in it is closer to Eastern music and Iranian music than Western music. According to others, this piece is closer to the space of the Bayat position in Isfahan than the minor step. The sentences of this waltz are paired symmetrical sentences and have sequential movements, and these two factors make it familiar and pleasant for the Iranian audience, both when Lumer himself and today, which has been re-arranged. In setting this waltz, the use of saxophone gives a special color to the music, which helps to induce the historical atmosphere of the work to some extent.
They have spoken about the autumn ballad used in this series: This ballad is one of the most famous vocal music that has become popular among the audience through television during these years. This ballad is composed by Abbas Shapouri and in fact Fakhreddini revived it by rearranging it and using it in all the music of the English bag series. The structure of the composition of the ballad is completely different from the other two works that were used as the first and end captions. At first, the two-dimensional base is heard in unison with the violin and recurring wounds, accompanied by the tombak. This soundtrack was very popular in radio music and on the recording pages during the period when the story was told.
The poem has a tumultuous and fiery content, and its singer, Alireza Ghorbani, is well able to perform its inner states. Needless to say, this was the first work to be televised with the victim’s voice, and of course it was not yet mature enough, but the beauty of the melody and arrangement, along with the victim’s understanding, helped him perform well.
Soroushnia and Haidarpanah have mentioned in the final part of this research article: The music of the English bag series, as the composer did not have much trouble in making and choosing it, was easily accepted and welcomed by the audience and remained in the memories.
Anyway, the soundtrack and caption music of the series “English Bag” made by Farhad Fakhreddini is one of the most audible caption music in the museum of memories and musical nostalgia of a generation that in their beautiful and glorious museum of memories has definitely considered a special and honorable place for the caption music of this series. And they can enjoy watching and hearing it for years.
To listen to the music of the final credits of the English bag series Here Click.
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