Examples of 'maqam' in a sentence

Meaning of "maqam"

Maqam is a term used in Middle Eastern music to refer to the system of melodic modes. Each maqam is built on a scale and has its own character. It is often used in improvisation and composition
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  • A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.

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The first is based on the maqam system.
A maqam may have more than one dominant.
Ajnas are the building blocks of a maqam scale.
The remaining notes in a maqam scale may or may not exactly land on semitones.
There is no consensus on exactly what the mood of each maqam or jins is.
Xgrid allows Maqam participate in distributed computing.
Entrance to the maqam.
The Arabic maqam is a melody type.
The compositions were simple and every singer would sing in a single maqam.
The maqam dates back to the Ottoman period.
Each individual country or region has a unique manner to play the Maqam.
The Maqam restaurant seeks to create a welcoming and comfortable environment tha.
Both compositions and improvisations in traditional Arabic music are based on the maqam system.
They went to the Maqam where they were praying for the dead.
He is the only living performer who knows the entire Iraqi maqam tradition.

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Maqam Bayat is a somber or dull sounding maqam and does not necessarily imply a given theme.
Zeita is an ancient village where marble Corinthian capitals have been reused in a local Maqam.
I have studied the Oud and the theory of Maqam with several masters in my country.
A maqam is the foundation of Middle Eastern music.
He will make his claim between Rukn and Maqam.
Maqam Ibrahim is the place or station of Abraham.
Mizrahi communities such as the Syrian Jews use the full maqam system.
A maqam for a Sheikh Iskander was noted on a hill above.
Nearby there is a religious place Eniyadi Maqam.
Maqam Rahawi Nawa is applied at the end of most books.
There is also maqam Shur in Azerbaijani music.
It is similar to the Arabic Hijaz maqam.
The Iraqi Maqam embraces numerous genres and primary melodic modes.
International Maqam festival.
The Maqam Shaykh Dawud stands in the middle of a cemetery on the summit of a hill.
The literal meaning of maqam is " the place where one stands.
The maqam singer Farida Mohammad Ali had taught there.
The tuning of the rest of the scale 's notes depends on the maqam.
The Maqam of prophet.
See a horse and camel race at the Al Maqam racecourse, unique in the world.
Maqam of Ibrahim.
When a musician performs maqam performances, the performer improvises, based on rules.
In all cases one should be facing the Ka'bah when praying behind Maqam Ibrahim.
This Maqam of his.
For an unusual outing one weekend, I went to the Al Maqam track.
Since that time the maqam of sheikh Nuran is a memorial of the Israel Defense Forces.
Do you even know what a maqam is?
Generally speaking, each maqam is said to evoke a different emotion in the listener.
Arab inhabitants also built a mosque on the site, of which the maqam ( shrine ) still remains.
The maqam al-Iraqi is considered to be the most noble and perfect form of maqam.
Abdullah stopped at the Maqam and began to recite,.
A maqam does not have an "established, regularly recurring bar scheme nor an unchanging meter.
Across the Arab world, maqam refers to specific melodic modes.
The maqam has a " tonal " note on which the piece must end unless modulation occurs.
However, Kurds use the term Maqam in a rather different way.

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