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	Maqam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maqam (مقام - plural maqamat) is an Arabic word which literally means 'place', but in English usage, it generally refers to systems found in Arab music, Iranian music, and several other Middle Eastern musical traditions.
		A maqam is sometimes thought of as equivalent to a musical mode, but this is inaccurate - a maqam, in many respects, is better thought of as being superimposed over the standard Arabic musical scale.
		Because the names of notes are often constant across different maqamat, it is possible to play music under a maqam different to the one it was written for.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Maqam (261 words)

	The Arabic Maqam
		In Arabic music, a maqam (plural maqamat) is a set of notes with traditions that define relationships between them, habitual patterns, and their melodic development.
		maqamat Kurd and Hijaz Kar Kurd, or maqamat Nahawand and Farahfaza).
		Maqamat like Jiharkah are rarely played on even-tempered instruments, even on ones that have been altered to produce quarter tones.
	www.maqamworld.com /maqamat.html (1740 words)

	Arab music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It would be incorrect though to call it modal, for the Arabic system is more complex than that of the Greek modes.
		The basis of the Arabic music is the maqam (pl. maqamat), which looks like the mode, but is not quite the same.
		Like the melodic minor scale and Indian ragas, some maqamat have different ajnas, and thus notes, while descending or ascending.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arab_music (1960 words)

	maqamot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The maqamat were composed in rhymed prose, the form in which the Qur'an was revealed.
		Each part of the maqamat dealt with a separate topic, but the whole was unified by the narrator.
		The narrator of the Maqamat pretended to have encountered this character wherever he went and entertained his audience with Abu'l-Fatih's stories he told.
	www.seattlecentral.org /faculty/cmalody/T3ma/maqamot.htm (262 words)

	maqamat
		There are many maqamat which carries "microtones", this is concretely "half flattened" notes.
		If you consider that between a natural note and the following one (for instance, C and D) there are 9 hertz (Hz, or cycles per second) of tonal difference, and a flattened note falls 5 Hz, there is some space to put a "middle" tone between a note and its flattened counterpart.
		There are described about 52 maqamat on Arabic music theory, but a dozen of them are used routinarily for playing purposes.
	oudpage.tripod.com /maqamat.htm (611 words)

	Maqamat Al-Hariri, Illustrated Arabic Manuscript from the 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque National, ms. arabe ...
		Maqamat Al-Hariri, Illustrated Arabic Manuscript from the 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque National, ms.
		The genre of the maqamat became an almost instant success because of the extraordinary quality of its writing.
		Dozens of manuscripts of Hariri's Maqamat have been preserved from his own time, including a probable autograph, and hundreds have remained from the thirteenth and later centuries.
	www.omifacsimiles.com /brochures/maq.html (640 words)

	Maqama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With this work, al-Harizi sought to raise the literary prestige of Hebrew to exceed that of Classical Arabic, just as the bulk of Iberian Jewry was finding itself living in a Spanish-speaking, Latin or Hebrew reading environment and Arabic was becoming less commonly studied and read.
		Later Hebrew maqamat made more significant departures, structurally and stylistically, from the classical Arabic maqamat of al-Hamadhani and al-Hariri.
		The Maqamat of Badi' al-zaman al-hamadhani: Translated from the Arabic with an Introduction and Notes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maqama (569 words)

	MAQAAMAAT
		The two outstanding examples of works addressed to the latter were the so called maqamat, a literary term usually translated as "assemblies" or "séances." Full of wit and learned allusions, they presupposed a knowledgeable audience that could appreciate them.
		The Maqamat became almost the best known and most highly appreciated literary works of later times among the Arabs; in particular, al-Hariyriy's Maqamat were praised highly and remain a favorite in the Muslim world.
		The artist illustrator who painted these maqamat was Yahya al-Wasiytiy; the leader of the school of decoration, calligraphy and embellishment in the 13th century.
	www.egyptianchronicles.freewebsitehosting.com /MAQAAMAAT.html (944 words)

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		Maqam (plural maqamat), is a series of pitches (scale) that can be represented by a seven or more tones based on eastern-modal systems.
		The repertoire that came out of these maqamat is called maqam music.
		In all cases, modulating to different maqamat is possible but with a final return to the original scale.
	www.arabclassicalmusic.com /res_maqam.html (517 words)

	The Oud
		Modulations between maqamat based on C and those based on E half-flat happen readily, as if they were based on the same tonic.
		Firstly, in modulating from maqamat based on B flat, as F is often the base note of the uppper jins in B flat maqamat.
		Finally, maqamat based on F (as well as some C maqamat transposed to F) can be the target of modulation from the two maqamat Hijaz Kar and Hijaz Kar Kurd.
	www.oud.eclipse.co.uk /arabmod.html (923 words)

	Maqamat Scales
		Maqamat that are common to western music and that can be played with western instruments.
		Maqamat that have small sound divisions (quarter tones) which can not be played with conventional western instruments (except none fretted and string instruments).
		This kind of Maqamat is used in Morocco, the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and the Gulf States.
	www.classicalarabicmusic.com /scales.htm (451 words)

	The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani Index
		A Maqama (plural, Maqamat) is an Arabic rhymed prose literary form, with short poetic passages.
		In the Maqamat of Hamadhani, the narrator is an alter ego of Hamadhani, a wandering scholar named Isa ibn Hisham.
		The Maqamat presents a vivid street-level view of the medieval Islamic countries at the height of their power and culture.
	www.sacred-texts.com /isl/mhm/index.htm (403 words)

	Muraqaba Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Following are the maqamat (stages) in which sufis have broadly categorised their journey of ascension.
		Through a series of stages (maqamat) and subjective experiences (ahwal), this process of absorbation develops until complete annihilation of the self (fana) takes place and the person becomes al-insanul-kamil, the "perfect man".
		It is the disintegration of a person's narrow self-concept, social self- and limited intellect (feeling like a drop of water aware of being part of the ocean).
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Muraqaba (1143 words)

	Turath Theory of Arab Music by Ali Jihad Racy Maqam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Maqam (plural maqamat): a melodic mode based on a theoretical scale, notes of emphasis, and a typical pattern of movement.
		Each of the maqamat is based on a theoretical scale, specific notes of emphasis, and a typical pattern of melodic movement, in many instances beginning around the tonic note of the scale, gradually ascending, and finally descending to the tonic.
		Yet, it is generally conceived that the maqamat are based on a referential octave scale consisting of twenty-four equal quarter-tones.
	www.turath.org /ProfilesMenu.htm (3788 words)

	Carolina Seminar for Comparative Islamic Studies
		The Maqamat, dating to the tenth century, has long been regarded as a literary landmark of superlative prose.
		Among these laurels, however, Stewart observes little attention has been given to understanding the Maqamat in the larger historical and ideological context of which it is a part.
		Based on this interpretation, the Maqamat is a critique of its time.
	www.unc.edu /depts/islamsem/950928.shtml (413 words)

	Maqamat, (The Assemblies) c. 1100 CE Al Hariri of Basrah (446-516 A.H./1054-1122 CE) - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy
		The narrator of the Maqamat pretends to have encountered this character wherever he went and entertained his audience with Abu'l-Fatih's erudition and the anecdotes he told.
		The Maqamat were composed in a style characteristic for this art form, They were cast into the ancient form of saj, "rhymed prose" (the form, as will be remembered, in which the Koran was revealed).
		Each maqamat dealt with a separate topic, the whole being unified by the persons of the narrator and the traveler, Abu'lFatb in al-Hamadhani's Maqamat, Abu Zayd of Saruj in those by the later al-Hariri (446-516 A. D.), This style enabled the authors to display all the brilliancy of their erudition, their rhetoric, and their wit.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /al_hariri.htm (13106 words)

	What Are Makams?
		Arabic scholars made significant contributions in studying and interpreting the works of the ancient Greeks; the Arabic system of modes known as maqamat came out of these early studies.
		In Arabic maqamat, the octave is divided into 24 equally spaced quarter-tones.
		Arabic maqamat are based on a 24 note octave which includes whole-tones, half-tones and quarter-tones.
	www.hinesmusic.com /What_Are_Makams.html (877 words)

	Music - Arts - Iraq - Middle East: 1940s late, bedouin music, arab music, buddhist chanting, elements humor
		Maqamat, a form of classical Arab music, is a kind of high-pitched, sophisticated Arab blues, accompanied by ‘ud, violins, and drums.
		From the late 1940s to the late 1970s tastes in music shifted from traditional Maqamat to a mix of Maqamat and songs based on lighter, more popular Arab music.
		Nazim al-Ghazali, who was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, was the main representative of this trend, although most of his songs were in the classical Maqamat style.
	www.countriesquest.com /middle_east/iraq/arts/music.htm (372 words)

	Arabic literature
		al-HAMADHANI (died 1008) is credited with inventing the genre known as maqamat ("assemblies") - dramatic anecdotes narrated by a witty but unscrupulous rogue which poke fun at all levels of society.
		In one work, he used only those letters of the alphabet which have no dots or do not join to the following letter in a word.
		Even so, for more than seven centuries, al-Hariri's maqamat were regarded as the greatest literary treasure of Arabic, after the Qur'an.
	www.al-bab.com /arab/literature/lit.htm (668 words)

	Maqamat
		To view a listing of all the Maqamat and their Scales,
		set of Audio Disks contain a very detailed description of all of these Maqamat, with an extensive set of musical examples to illustrate them.
		Born in the village of Ibl al-Saqi in South Lebanon, Dr. Ali Jihad Racy is a respected performer, composer, ethnomusicologist, and specialist in the music of the Middle East.
	www.classicalarabicmusic.com /maqam.htm (1333 words)

	View topic - True Arabic is? Jesus Christ Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The two outstanding examples of works addressed to the latter were the socalled maqamat, a literary term usually translated as "assemblies" or "séances." Full of wit and learned allusions, they presupposed a knowledgeable audience that could appreciate them.
		The leading character of his work was Abu'l-Fatih of Alexandria, the wandering scholar, the Muslim counterpart of the Fahrende Schüler or Vagans Clericus of medieval Europe, who lived by his wits roving through the land.
		Each maqamat dealt with a separate topic, the whole being unified by the persons of the narrator and the traveler, Abu'lFatb in al-Hamadhani's Maqamat, Abu Zayd of Saruj in those by the later al-Hariri (446-516 A.H./1054-1122 A.D.), This style enabled the authors to display all the brilliancy of their erudition, their rhetoric, and their wit.
	www.freejesus.net /home/viewtopic.php?p=23873 (909 words)

	Drory Rina: "Literary Contacts and Where to Find Them"
		Maqamat were both produced during the final phase of Jewish cultural
		and his own maqamat were later composed on the same model.
		the introduction to al-Hariri's Maqamat (al-Hariri 1929: 6, in Appendix).
	www.tau.ac.il /tarbut/rina.drory/abodot/lit_cont.htm (10019 words)

	maqamat - 1 - zonExplorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Illustrations of the Maqamat (Chicago Visual Library-Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination)
		Certificates of transmission on a manuscript of the Maqamat of Hariri (MS.
		The art of Badi° az-Zaman al-Hamadhani as picaresque narrative (Papers of the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies)
	www.celtic-one-design.com /php/Power_maqamat_books.html (83 words)

	TimnaTal Music archives
		Arabic scholars made important contributions in studying and interpreting the works of the ancient Greeks.
		The Arabic system of modes known as MAQAMAT came out of these early studies.
		Classical Arabic composers show their skill in the development of these quarter-tones not through harmony or polyphony(as in the West), but through melody.
	www.timnatalmusic.com /articles.htm (1243 words)

	International Opus
		This piece has been popular among Egyptian instrumentalists for decades and is published now for the first time with the solo part available for flute, oboe or violin.
		A quintet arrangement of an Egyptian melody by the leading 20th Century Egyptian composer known as the “Bartok of Egypt.” Ornamented solo lines for flute, oboe and clarinet, and unusual harmonies based on Arabic modes (maqamat).
		Written in 1981 as a wedding present for the composer’s daughter and son-in-law, the lively, syncopated 1st and 3rd movements are based on Egyptian folk songs, We Samahennoba and the love song Ya Nakhletein (Two Palm Trees), while the haunting slow movement is entirely original.
	www.internationalopus.com /cgi-bin/io.pl?mode=category&category=All (3377 words)

	Arabic Classical Music
		The modal system is sometimes based on theoretical octave scales of 17, 19 or 24 notes, although the temperament is not generally equal, and the practice is essentially diatonic (the infra-chromaticism expressed in "neutral thirds").
		The favorite modes (maqamat) come from throughout the greater Arab world.
		Classical Arabic theory and practice can be seen as a great synthesis of both the earlier classical traditions as well as regional melodic forms.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/arabic.html (701 words)

	Mike's Oud Forums
		in marcus's book, he mentions that d'erlanger made a list contains no less then 135 maqamat.
		i have scanned the list of maqamat, each with its own taqsim.
		for now i'm attaching the maqamat wich starts on g (yakah).
	www.mikeouds.com /messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=2003&page=1 (168 words)

	learn middle eastern music
		D and C and Bb and E half-flat -- Based Maqamat
		Track 1: Hijaz Kar (Shehnaz on C) Track 2: Zanjaran (Shehnaz on C with Ajam)
		Track 18: Transposing and Modulating between D and C -- Based Maqamat
	www.musicalmissions.com /teachingCDs.html (523 words)

	Nabataea: Maritime
		Procopius, writing in the sixth century AD, tells us that ships used in the Indian Seas 'are not covered with pitch or any substance, and the planks are fastened together, no with nails but with cords.' (Ray, 1994, pg 173)
		Some illustrations of stitching can be found in Sanchi sculptures of the second century BC, and paintings accompanying al-Harari's Maqamat of AD 1237.
		The thirteenth century AD account of Marco Polo is less than complimentary: "The vessels built at Hormuz are the worst kind, aand dangerous for navigation, exposing the merchants and others who make use of them to great hazards."
	www.nabataea.net /ships.html (2394 words)

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