Arabic maqam

The Arabic maqam is a melody type.

It is similar to the Arabic maqam Nikriz.

In Azerbaijan the word is mugham from Arabic Maqam.

Sabah, a mode in Arabic music (see Arabic maqam)

(for more detail see Arabic Maqam Ajnas)

It also refers to a musical mode in Arabic music that is based on the quarter-tone scale (Arabic maqam).

Arabic maqam theory as ascribed in literature over the ages names between 90 and 110 maqams, that are grouped into larger categories known as fasilah.

It was somewhat influenced by the Arabic maqam modal system that has led to many musical genres among peoples of Eurasia and North Africa.

It is similar to the Arabic maqam Hijaz, but whereas the dominant of Hijaz is on the fourth degree, Ahavah Rabbah strongly favors the third.

Starting from the tonic of a particular Arabic maqam, the first few measures of the improvisation remain in the lower ajnas of the maqam, thereby introducing the maqam to the listener.

Quizzed, for instance, on his introduction of a chord progression into an Arabic maqam, his amiable retort was to the effect that, if he felt like it and it sounded alright, why shouldn't he?

Otherwise, there is often a customary intonation used in the study of Mishnah or Talmud, somewhat similar to an Arabic maqam, but this is not reduced to a precise system like that for the Biblical books.

Despite this, the nowadays wide-spread equidistant 24- or 72-tone tuning of common Arab and Turkish qanun models do not exactly reproduce the traditionally understood interval ratios of Arabic maqam or Ottoman Turkish makam scales.