Arab Modal Systems
Arab Modal Systems is a formal musical framework within the theoretical structure of Middle Eastern music traditions that comprises a set of melodic modes—known as maqāmāt—distinguished by their specific intervallic structures, tonic centers, and characteristic melodic behaviors governing improvisation and composition.
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The Modal System of Arab and Persian Music A. D. 1250-1300
Lois Ibsen al Faruqi, Owen Wright · Ethnomusicology · 1980 · 48 citations
Amnon Shiloah · Journal of the American Musicological Society · 1981 · 10 citations
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