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Rast Neisabouri Maqam!!!

damascene_oud - 5-3-2007 at 03:12 AM

Guys has anyone of you heard of Rast Maqam called:
"Rast Naissabouri"? And what's the difference between it and the regular Rast do maqam that we know?

eliot - 5-3-2007 at 06:42 AM

I'm guessing that you're referring to the makam called Nişaburek in Turkish - it's like Rast, but played on the same tonic as you would play Bayati (D for Arabic tuning), and pieces in it look much more like Western pieces in the Major mode, at least in the melodies. It would be easy to put I-IV-V-I chords under most Nisaburek melodies.

I found 6 Saz Semais and 4 Pesrevs in this makam, and over a dozen songs.

There's some other details, but this is a start for you.

Marina - 5-4-2007 at 03:09 AM

Rast al re = Naishabur
jaka al re = Naishaburk

According to my notebook from the Taisir Elias lectures.

damascene_oud - 5-6-2007 at 01:51 AM

Thanks for your answer, i think i know what u are referring to, and i don't believe it's the same as "Rast Naissabouri" the one u are talking about is close to what exactly u have said as Major Mode. But "Rast Naissabouri" is different.
I was told by someone that the famous song of Oum Kolsoum "Robaiiyat Alkhayyam" composed by Riad Sonbati on "Rast Naissabouri" and that the reason whu Sonbati used this Maqam because the poert who wrote the poem Omar Khayyam was born in the city of Naissabour in Persia.
But i didn't find any differences from the well known "Rast Do" mode that we know.

damascene_oud - 5-6-2007 at 01:56 AM

I guess the famous Turkish song "Yillar Yili" is composed on tht Naisahburk maqam u r talking about, right Eliot?