Maqam al-iraqi
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
- Ahmed Zaydan
 - Rashid al-Qundarchi
 - Mohammad al-Qubbanchi
 - Hussein al-A'dhami
 - Najm al-Shaykhli
 - Hassan Khaiwka
 - Hashim al-Rejab
 - Yusuf Omar
 - Farida Ali
 - Abdulrahman Khidhr
 - Hamed al-Sa‘di
 - Nazem Al-Ghazali
 - Felfel Gourgy
 - 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
 - Najm al-Shaykhli
 - Abbas Kambir
 - Farida al-A‘dhami
 
External links
- Famous Iraqi Maqam Singers
 - Iraqi Maqam
 - Genres of Secular Art Music Al-maqam al-'iraqi
 - General information about Iraqi Maqam
 
References
- 1 2 Touma, Habib Hassan (2006). The Music of the Arabs. United States of America: Amadeus Press. pp. 55–57. ISBN 978-1574670813.
 
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