English Dictionary

maqam

noun

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

The maqam is a traditional musical scale used in Middle Eastern music.

意味（1）

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

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.