maqam

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Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مَقَام (maqām). . Doublet of mugham.

Noun

maqam (plural maqams or maqamat)

  1. (music) A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.
    • 2008 January 14, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz Showcase Fever Propels a Mini Marathon”, in New York Times‎:
      Elsewhere in the evening the young Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, who has studied both jazz and traditional Arabic maqam patterns and combines them in modal pieces for improvisers, demonstrated with his sextet (including an oud and a santoor, the Persian hammered dulcimer) how hungry jazz still is for sources older than itself.
    • 2008 May 1, Erica Goode, “A Fabled Iraqi Instrument Thrives in Exile”, in New York Times‎:
      At 18, late for a professional musician, he took up the oud, studying the mysteries of the Iraqi maqam, the complex system of tonal sequences and improvisation passed from master to student.
    • 2009 April 2, Ashante Infantry, “Baghdad jazz”, in Toronto Star‎:
      But he hesitated when approached to do a project that combined maqam with jazz, even though that had been his pre-quest intention.

Synonyms

Translations

Zazaki

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَقَام (maqām).

Noun

maqam (m)

  1. (music) Melodic mode. The makam system sets complex rules for cins (characteristic intervals) and seyir (melodic development) in classical genres such as Ottoman court music, mosque music, and Mevlevi music. The Arab مقام (maqām), or mode, is most closely related, the Persian دستگاه (dastgâh), Central Asian mugam, Indian rag and others are more distantly related.
  2. tune, music, harmony
  3. mode, way, manner
  4. place, station, post, office (workplace)
  5. position of authority, chair
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