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	The Arabic Maqam
		Each maqam has a different character which conveys a mood, in a similar fashion to the mood in a Major or Minor scale, although that mood is subjective.
		Each maqam includes rules that define the starting note (tonic, or qarar in Arabic), the ending note (or mustaqarr in Arabic), which in some cases is different to the tonic, and the dominant note (or ghammaz in Arabic).
		With time, the original tuning of maqam Hijaz had been lost except in a handful of new recordings, and was replaced with what is called “piano Hijaz”; (a derogatory term.) Equally bad is the “piano Ajam”, where the 3rd note should be slightly lower and more mellow.
	www.maqamworld.com /maqamat.html (1740 words)

	maqam, Issa Boulos
		Maqam (plural maqamat), is a series of pitches (scale) that can be represented by a seven or more tones based on eastern-modal systems.
		Historically, maqam music gained sophistication and momentum during the height of the Islamic Empire between the eighth and the thirteenth centuries.
		The maqam is established to introduce a instrumental or vocal performance or as an independent solo piece with decisive musical beginning and ending.
	www.issaboulos.com /maqam.html (517 words)

	MUSIC
		Maqam has historically been one of the unifying factors in the different traditions of Qur’anic recitation throughout the Middle East, thereby serving as a musical means of ascribing religious unity.
		At the beginning of the 21st century maqam is a melody type, the characteristics of which include a hierarchy of pitches, variant intonation and specific melodic shapes that largely determine the melodic contours of improvisation and composition.
		Composers and performers display their technical mastery and understanding of maqam aesthetics through appropriate use of modulation, which proceeds on the basis of an established system of relationships between maqamat, in which they are grouped according to their common tonics and tetrachords.
	www.cacac.org /Arabic_Music_Theory.htm (6650 words)

	Amir ElSaffar :: Iraqi Maqam Singer, Santur Player, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The use of the word maqam in Iraq is distinct from its use in the rest of the Arab world and Turkey, where the term refers to a musical mode on which compositions and improvisations are based.
		The exact beginning of the maqam tradition in Iraq is unknown, and is a subject of debate among maqam musicians and connoisseurs.
		In religious contexts, maqam melodies were used in the call to prayer, during mawlud rituals (celebrations of the birth of the prophet Mohammed), as well as in Qur’anic recitation.
	www.amirelsaffar.com /about.html (1385 words)

	Zamàn Production, World Music, Farida Mohammed Ali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Iraqi Maqam Ensemble, was founded in 1989 in Baghdad By Mohammad H.Gomar to continuation of The Iraqi Musical Heritage Group which was initiated in 1973 by the prominent Lute professor Munir Bashir (1927-1997).
		Maqams are performed mainly and widely in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Mosul and Kerkuk.
		Surely, he or she is also expected to integrate his own improvisation in the maqams system of standard style to reflect his or her own particular style and character as a singer.
	www.zamanproduction.com /pagessecondnivo/a_12farida.html (569 words)

	World Music Central - Iraqi maqam
		In this respect the Iraqi maqam is the equivalent of the mugam of Turkey and Azerbaijan, the dastgah in Iran and the maqam of Uzbekistan.
		It is notable that although there are a lot of Turkish, Kurdish and Persian influences on Iraqi maqam, the family of long-neck lutes (tar, saz, tambur, baglama, buzuk, etcetera) is not in use in the Iraqi maqam, in fact these instruments are not used at all in Iraq, outside the Kurdish cultural domain.
		Other maqam singers As might already be clear to the reader from the explanation in the introduction to this section, the styles and development in maqam singing are associated through the major vocalists of this genre, although the instrumentalists are just as important to the maqam tradition.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/iraqi_maqam (3254 words)

	Jericho Municipality link page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The maqam of Nabi Musa is considered a holy place because it houses the grave of prophet Moses according to local tradition.
		Maqam Al-Nabi Musa, or the Tomb of Prophet Moses, is splendid example of early Islamic architecture set in an awe-inspiring landscape.
		This is a revised version of the text on the maqam prepared by the Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE) in Ramalla, an article by the Islamic Research and Heritage Revival Establishment in Jerusalem and from a report made by Abass Nimr Published in Al Quds Newspaper in 1997.
	www.jericho-city.org /historical.html (6012 words)

	MUSIC
		Maqam rast راست, for instant, is based on C tonic and consists of two disjunct tetrachords: the first one-rast tetrachord on C (rast), and the second one is rast tetrachord on G (nahawand) as shown on the figure below.
		The maqam is generally made up of one diwan of eight notes, sometimes the maqam scale extends up to two diwans as I mentioned in the introduction.
		Each maqam includes rules that define the starting note (qarar[8]), the ending note (mustaqar[9]), which in some cases is different to the tonic, and the dominant note (ghummaz).
	www.cacac.org /The_Art_of_the_Arabic_Maqam.htm (1921 words)

	Maqamat
		The Maqam is a modal structure which manifests a unique process of improvisation and characterizes the art of music of a large part of the earth.
		Because of the rhythmic freedom of the Maqam the designation of "melodic line" is probably more appropriate than "melody" since the outline of the tonal-spatial form of the Maqam is distinguished by emphasizing certain tone centres and tone levels.
		The development of the Maqam is based mainly on a systematic exploration of the tone levels beginning with the lower and moving toward the higher registers until a climax at the highest tone level is reached.
	www.classicalarabicmusic.com /maqam.htm (1333 words)

	Arabic Maqam World
		Maqam World is a non-commercial, educational web site dedicated to helping musicians understand the maqam or modal system used in classical Arabic music.
		Maqam World attempts to simplify the subject for the Arabic music beginner, while trying hard to remain correct and not exclude any essential information.
		These are provided for all maqam and ajnas (sets) names, and most foreign words.
	www.maqamworld.com (198 words)

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		Maqam or Makam is the common name for the modal system used in the Mediterranean, Middle East, North Africa and parts of Asia and Europe.
		The drone is the tonic of the maqam.
		The lower ajnas is the primary part of the maqam and it indicates the type of the maqam.
	www.harelshachal.com /page10.html (1242 words)

	Music of Bakhtiari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maqam, here, signifies the relations of each tune with a subject, an occasion or the reason of its making and also denotes a particular ceremony or a traditional rite of the nomadic people.
		During recent times and due to expansion of communicative technology, the traditional tunes have become more unknown (unfamiliar) to the ears which are used to hear the other abstract and sometimes eclectic types of music.
		Means "on top of the mountain" and is a Maqam that the shepherds sing and play it with their flutes (Neys).
	www.farhangsara.com /bakhtiari_music.htm (500 words)

	IslamOnline.net - Hajj Mabrur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After relating many Hadiths about the Prophet's prayer behind the Maqam and his circumambulation around the Ka`bah, Ibn Kathir said that the Maqam is the rock on which Prophet Ibrahim (peace and blessings be upon him) stood when the walls got too high for him and he needed to be in a higher position.
		The current position of the Maqam is the same as it was before Islam, upon the advent of Islam and in the eras of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and Abu Bakr and `Umar (may Allah be pleased with them).
		The Maqam was brought to the palace and chemical compounds were made for it to be hardened and mended therewith, as some pieces fell down while removing the decoration in 255 A.H. in the process of mending it.
	www.islamonline.net /English/hajj/Landmarks/1425/05.shtml (621 words)

	Maqam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rhythmic counterpart of maqam in Arabic and Turkish music is usul.
		The notes of a maqaam are not of equal temperament (meaning that the difference in pitch between each note is not identical, unlike in the chromatic scale used in modern Western music).
		The Iraqi genre of maqam al-iraqi is often considered the most perfect form of the maqaam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maqam (695 words)

	List of masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity
		Iraqi’s venerable Maqam genre is closely linked, in structure and instrumentation, to the family of traditional musical forms practised in Iran, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
		Maqam performances generally take place at private gatherings and in coffee houses and theatres.
		With a repertory rooted in classical or colloquial Arabic poetry and distinctive vocal and instrumental timbres, the Maqam is the musical form most revered by the country’s musicians, intellectuals, literary and musical scholars as well as by a wide cross-section of the Iraqi population.
	www.unesco.org /culture/intangible-heritage/masterpiece.php?id=81&lg=fr (441 words)

	One man's mission to preserve Iraqi music - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
		He learned to play a maqam on his trumpet and soon found a teacher of joza, a fiddle made from a coconut shell and the heart tissue of a water buffalo.
		The other instruments in a maqam ensemble are usually the santur, a kind of dulcimer; an Arabic tabla, a goblet-shaped drum; and a riqq, a tambourine.
		Today, the mosque is the safest repository for maqam music in Iraq, and variations of it are part of the recitation of the Koran - by both Sunnis and Shiites - including the call to prayer, mourning rituals and celebrations of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/07/29/features/amir.php (1080 words)

	Maqam Nahawand CD
		This maqam was popular in Iran and Turkey before it made its way down to Syria and Egypt.
		According to Arabic music scholars, this maqam was considered off limits for holy use until about 70 years ago when a well-respected Sheikh used it for the first time for religious chanting.
		This maqam was common among the Turks and Aleppo's close proximity to Turkey would account for a number of older pizmonim bearing Turkish musical origins.
	www.pizmonim.org /nahawand.htm (204 words)

	Theory
		A maqam is somewhat like the western concept of a scale, but has an implicit path (sayr) of melodic development.
		The full understanding of the identity of each particular maqam takes years of careful study with a master musician; needless to say, I don't have that kind of thorough understanding, therefore my discussion here will be necessarily rather incomplete.
		A maqam is made up of two or more ajnas, with the second starting usually on the 4th or 5th degree.
	www.brianprunka.com /oud/maqam.htm (1133 words)

	Maqam al-iraqi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maqam al-iraqi is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam.
		The instrumentation of the ensemble used in maqam al-iraqi, Jalghi baghdadi, includes a qart' (singer), three santur (hammered dulcimers), juazh (spike fiddle), tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq (tambourine).
		A complete maqam concert is known as fasl (plural fusul) and is named after the first maqam: bayat, hijaz, rast, nawa, or husayni.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maqam_al-iraqi (135 words)

	EOL book review: Sufyana Musiqi (Pacholczyk) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Included is a detailed consideration of maqam as suite, as tonal system, and as mode; the formal structure of songs; and indigenous musical theory as formulated in written sources.
		Part II documents the modal repertory: each of 47 maqams is analysed on the basis of theoretical accounts, notated melodies, and recorded performances, with examples where available of both song melodies and instrumental preludes.
		The relationship suggested here between Sufyana maqams and Indian ragas is not unlike that between North and South Indian ragas, where Powers has shown that melodic motifs are of greater significance than scale structure (1970).
	research.umbc.edu /eol/4/widdess/index.html (1356 words)

	Startseite Al-Maqam
		Die Redaktion würde sich über einen lebhaften Austausch mit den Lesern freuen.
		Eine arabische Tonleiter wird auch als Maqam bezeichnet.
		In früheren Zeiten konnte das Wort Maqam auch für eine Gedichtsammlung stehen.
	www.al-maqam.info (307 words)

	Music of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iraqi maqam, and music in general, is closely related to Syrian music, but is less melodious and more melismatic.
		Maqam texts are often derived from classical Arabic poetry, such as by Mohammad Mehdi Al-Jawahiri, al-Mutanabbi and Abu Nuwas, or Persian poets like Hafez and Omar Khayyám.
		The most popular modern singers of maqam are Rachid Al-Qundarchi (1887-1945), Youssouf Omar (1918-1987), Nazem Al-Ghazali (1920-1963), Salim Shibbeth (born 1908), Hassan Chewke (1912-1962), Najim Al-Sheikhli (1893-1938), Mohammed Al-Qubanchi (1900-1989) and Farida Mohammed Ali (1963-).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Iraq (858 words)

	Fes Festival
		The word Maqam comes from the trilateral root QWM, from which are derived a number of phonemes, substantives and verbs having a variety of meanings (to rise up, stop, stay eternal, etc.).
		The word Maqam is firstly used to mean a sojourn, then it means dignity and rank, and also a prophetic sacred place (the Maqam of Ibrahim in Mecca).
		It was later transposed to name an erudite literary genre, before becoming part of musical vocabulary towards the 12th century when it designated a musical scale, a mode and by extension the system of modes in their entirety.
	www.fesfestival.com /en/aladhami.htm (500 words)

	PRI's The World
		Within each maqam are melodies that follow one after the other.
		Iraqi musicians personalize the maqams, arranging the melodies in ways that heighten the meaning and allegory of the songs.
		Also I remember I'd be working on a maqam and then I'd take a walk by the Tigris and look up at the stars, and look at the palm trees, and there was something about just hearing it in my ears and seeing those sights, that there was this harmony.
	theworld.org /?q=taxonomy_by_date/2/20061004 (1024 words)

	[No title]
		Thank you for sending the words of some of Rashid's maqams and I have pleasure in enclosing 5 CD's consisting of all the recorded maqams of Rashid which I would like you to review for The Scribe, and make any comments that you may think appropriate.
		Rashid Al-Kundarchi is one of the greatest Iraqi Maqam singers of the twentieth century.
		He was also the Maqam expert at the Iraqi Broadcasting Station, where he auditioned Iraqi Maqam singers and chose those who were suitable for singing on the radio broadcasts.
	www.dangoor.com /issue76/articles/76026.htm (755 words)

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