Rast (maqam)

Rast Panjgah (or Rast; Persian: راست پنج گاه) is the name of a Dastgah (musical mode) in Persian and related systems of music.

Rast is a Persian word (راست) meaning "right" or "direct". Rast is regarded as the basic Dastgah in Persian music and later on was copied in Arabic music and Turkish makam music, in the same way as the major scale in Western music, though it is rather different from the major scale in detail. Rast features a half-flat third and a half-flat seventh scale degrees.

Middle eastern Sephardic Jews liken the word Rast to head from the Hebrew word "rosh". Therefore, they have a tradition of applying Maqam Rast to the prayers whenever they begin a new Torah book in the weekly Torah portions (this occurs approximately five times a year as there are five books in the Torah).

Maqam Rast on Do: Do / Re / Mi (half-Flat) / Fa / Sol / La / Si (H-F) / Do.

Maqam Rast RE: Re / Mi / Fa# (half-Sharp) / Sol / La / Si / Do# (H-S) / Re.

Maqam Rast Mi: Mi / Fa# / Sol# (H-S) / La / Si / Do# / Re# (H-S) / Mi.

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Maqam

Maqam may refer to:

MAQAM, a media company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media

Places

Maqam, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran

Religion

Another name for a mazar (mausoleum), often used for a venerated structure in traditional Islam

Maqaam, spiritual stages in the Sufi path

for "Weekly Maqam" see below under "Musical structures"

Musical structures

Arabic maqam, melodic modes in traditional Arabic music

Mugham, a music tradition of Azerbaijani cultures

Maqam al-iraqi, an Iraqi melodic system

Weekly Maqam, prayer services of Sephardic Jewish culture

Makam, a Turkish system of melody types

Muqam, a melody type from Uyghur culture

Shashmaqam, a musical genre typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

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MAQAM

MAQAM is a US-based production company specializing in Arabic and Middle Eastern media. The company was established by a small group of Arabic music and culture lovers, later becoming a division of 3B Media Inc. "MAQAM" is an Arabic word meaning a position of high esteem. It also refers to a musical mode in Arabic music that is based on the quarter-tone scale (Arabic maqam).

The company's consumer retail web site is considered to be "The World's biggest on-line source for Arabic Music". In 2007 the company launched the first legal Arabic music digital service and the first online Arabic music radio/streaming service. They also produce the nationally syndicated radio program Radio MAQAM, which is broadcast weekly on public radio, and is hosted by Bashar Barazi. The show is the first ever Arabic hour on public radio.

In 2001 the company co-produced a commemorative album for Iraqi oud player Munir Bashir entitled Mesopotamia. This was followed by another cultural production for Iraqi Oud prodigy Asim Al Chalabi entitled Monajat.

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