Originally posted by eliot
The other broader question, one that has surfaced only occasionally on this and other boards, is the extent to which "Arab maqam", "Turkish makam,"
"Persian mugham" (there was such a system before the radif/dastgah system was established) and/or other neighboring modal systems are actually similar
or different (both historically and in the present). Yes, there is a Rast in Turkey; yes there is a Rast in Egypt; yes there is a Rast in Iraq, and
yes all of them would appear to share a similar scalar structure.
But are they really the same? Sayyed Darwish's Rast compositions sound very different than Turkish şarkı which sound very different than...
you get the idea. How much of this is a result of different composers, and how much can be attributed to what makam Rast/ maqam Rast actually
represent or signify? |