Maqam

Quick meaning: Maqam is a noun meaning (music) A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.

Meaning

(music) A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.

Example Sentences

But he hesitated when approached to do a project that combined maqam with jazz, even though that had been his pre-quest intention.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• maqams
• maqamat
• maqaam

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maqama, mugam, avaz, mugham, muqarnas, maqta.

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