Look up maqam, makam, mugam, or mugham in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maqam, makam, maqaam or maqām (plural maqāmāt) may refer to: Arabic maqam, melodic...
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In traditional Arabic music, maqam (Arabic: مقام, romanized: maqām, literally "ascent"; pl. مقامات maqāmāt) is the system of melodic modes, which is mainly...
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Iraqi Maqam (Arabic: المقام العراقي, romanized: al-maqām al-ʿIrāqī) is a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq. The roots of modern Iraqi maqam can...
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MAQAM is a US-based production company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media. The company was established by a small group of Arabic music and...
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The Maqām Ibrāhīm (Arabic: مَقَام إِبْرَاهِيْم, lit. 'Station of Abraham') is a small square stone associated with Ibrahim (Abraham), Ismail (Ishmael)...
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Turkish Beyâtî), also known as Bayat and Uşşâk (Ushaq), is the name of a maqam (musical mode) in Arabic, Turkish, and related systems of music. Bayati...
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Persian maqam (Persian: مقام) is a notion in Persian classical music. Quoting Nooshin, The distinction between gusheh and mode is rarely discussed in...
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each Shabbat the congregation conducts services using a different maqam. A maqam (مقام), which in Arabic literally means 'place', is a standard melody...
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گاه) is the name of a dastgah (musical mode) in Iranian music and of a maqam in Arabic and related systems of music. Rast (راست) is a Persian word meaning...
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the name of a maqam (musical mode) in Arabic, Turkish, and related systems of music. Ajam (عجم) in this usage means "Persian". The maqam Ajam is constructed...
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The Maqam Echahid (Arabic: مقام الشهيد, Maqāmu š-šahīd, Arabic pronunciation: [maqaːmu ʃːahiːd], English: Martyr's Memorial) is a concrete monument commemorating...
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A maqām (Arabic: مقام) is a Muslim shrine constructed at a site linked to a religious figure or saint, commonly found in the Levant (or al-Shām), which...
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Rast is the implementation of the Rast maqam in Arabic maqam theory. Its formal account is in 24 Tone Equal Temperament, but according to some musicologists...
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Saba (music) (redirect from Saba (maqam))
and Turkish classical music. This article covers both the Arabic jins and maqam called "Saba" as well as the similar Turkish makam of the same name. In...
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List of chords List of musical intervals List of pitch intervals Arabian maqam Modes of limited transposition Symmetric scale Synthetic modes Tetrachord...
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Maqam an-Nabi Yusha' (Arabic: مقام النبي يوشع) is a religious complex consisting of a mosque and the shrine containing a mausoleum believed to entomb...
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Phrygian dominant scale (redirect from Hijaz-Nahawand maqam)
Arabic and Egyptian music, in which it is called Hijaz-Nahawand or Hijaz maqam, but is not so frequent. The scale is used in Hebrew prayers and Klezmer...
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Music of Syria (section Maqam)
The main components are a maqam and an iqa (rhythm/metre). A maqam is a set of scales made of up of three or four notes. A maqam will have two or three of...
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Yatathanna (Arabic: لما بدا يتثنى) is an Arabic muwashshah of the Nahawand maqam. The poem is considered one of the most famous Arabic pieces of its era...
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Abol-Qasem Qa'em-Maqam Farahani (also spelled Qa'im Maqam; Persian: میرزا ابوالقاسم قائممقام فراهانی; 1779 – 1835), also known as Qa'em-Maqam II, was an Iranian...
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Maqām (Arabic: مَقَام "station"; plural مَقَامَات maqāmāt) refers to each stage a Sufi's soul must attain in its search for God. The stations are derived...
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Syrian Cantors (section Maqam of the week)
applications to the prayers. A different maqam is used each week, depending on the week's Torah portion. The maqam system is characteristic of, and can be...
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creative pioneers in the field of Iraqi maqam who also modernized it, and he is considered one of the most famous maqam reciters in Iraq. Muhammad Abd al-Razzaq...
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Maqam Masjid, also called Muham Palli in the local language is a mosque in Alappuzha district of Kerala, India. The Masjid is one of the historically...
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Blue Maqams is the latest studio album by Tunisian oud player and composer Anouar Brahem, recorded in New York in May 2017 and released on ECM October...
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for a given maqam, there is a traditional or expected sequence of different ajnas that influences melodies and entire songs in that maqam. It is not a...
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In maqam music theory, finalis is the name of the note in a maqam where the mode "rests" (stops). For most maqams, this is also the tonic note. In Persian...
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Arabic music (section Maqam system)
and improvisations in traditional Arabic music are based on the maqam system. Maqams can be realized with either vocal or instrumental music, and do not...
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Al-Askari Shrine (redirect from Maqam Ghaybat)
Al-Askari Shrine, the 'Askariyya Shrine, or Al-Askari Mosque is a Shia Muslim mosque and mausoleum in the Iraqi city of Samarra 125 km (78 mi) from Baghdad...
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Arabic maqam (or a Turkish makam), the first few measures of the improvisation remain in the lower ajnas of the maqam, thereby introducing the maqam to the...
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