Maqam al-iraqi
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Chalghi Baghdadi 1932
Iraqi Maqam (Arabic: المقام العراقي) is a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq that is at least four-hundred years old. The ensemble of instruments used in this genre, called Al-Chalghi al-Baghdadi, includes a qari' (singer), santur, jawza, tabla or dunbug/dumbeg, and sometimes riqq and naqqarat. The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or an 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.[1]
A typical performance includes the following sections:[1]
- tahrir, sometimes badwah
- taslum
- finalis
Famous maqam singers[]
There are many maqam iraqi singers including:[citation needed]
- Ahmed Zaydan
- Rashid al-Qundarchi
- Mohammad al-Qubbanchi
- Hussein al-A'dhami
- Najm al-Shaykhli
- Hassan Khaiwka
- Hashim al-Rejab
- Yusuf Omar
- Farida Mohammad Ali
- Abdulrahman Khidhr
- Hamed al-Sa‘di
- Nazem Al-Ghazali
- Affifa Iskandar
- Mulla Hasan al-Babujachi
- Rahmat Allah Shiltagh
- Khalil Rabbaz
- Rahmain Niftar
- Rubin Rajwan
- Mulla Uthman al-Mawsili
- Jamil al-Baghdadi
- Salman Moshe
- Yusuf Huresh
- Abbas Kambir
- Farida al-A‘dhami
See also[]
External links[]
- Famous Iraqi Maqam Singers
- Iraqi Maqam
- Genres of Secular Art Music Al-maqam al-'iraqi
- General information about Iraqi Maqam
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Touma, Habib Hassan (2006). The Music of the Arabs. United States of America: Amadeus Press. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-1574670813.
Categories:
- Iraqi music
- Arabic music
- Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
- Maqam-based music tradition