Maqam al-iraqi
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Maqam al-iraqi (Arabic: المقام العراقي) 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 qari' (singer), three santur (hammered dulcimers), juazh (spike fiddle), tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq (tambourine). The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or Iraqi dialect (then called zuhayri). A complete maqam concert is known as fasl (plural fusul) and is named after the first maqam: bayat, hijaz, rast, nawa, or husayni. (Touma 1996, p.55, 57)
A typical performance includes the following sections (ibid, p.56):
- tahrir, sometimes badwah
- taslum
- finalis
[edit] Source
- Touma, Habib Hassan (1996). The Music of the Arabs, trans. Laurie Schwartz. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0931340888.
