#maqam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #maqam, aggregated by home.social.
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Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation
📍 SOAS, London
📅 17–18 September 2026Explores cross-border maqām traditions, postnational musical creativities, mobility, decolonial approaches, and modal exchange beyond nation-state canons.
Papers welcome from ethnographic, analytical, archival and practice-based perspectives.
Deadline: 08/05/2026
#MusicStudies #Ethnomusicology #Maqam #DecolonialStudies #Migration
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Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation
📍 SOAS, London
📅 17–18 September 2026Explores cross-border maqām traditions, postnational musical creativities, mobility, decolonial approaches, and modal exchange beyond nation-state canons.
Papers welcome from ethnographic, analytical, archival and practice-based perspectives.
Deadline: 08/05/2026
#MusicStudies #Ethnomusicology #Maqam #DecolonialStudies #Migration
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@Barbarast ! Helemaal vergeten te posten dat we vorige week met #Maqam de mooiste operastukken in een uitverkocht Maldestijn ten gehore mochten brengen.... Een Opera de Mariage.
https://www.maqam.nl/operakoren/
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Goosebumps. Discovering the work of Ghada Shbeir. She speaks to my mediterranean identity like no other artist.
#mediterranean #ocean #chantspolyphonique #GhadaShbeir #arabicmusic #maqam #spiritual #syriac #classicalmusic
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPjrpbHXVQl5Cx2v6ki95-l6IK6RVrq1c&si=NyJEhXV5EXzhm02n
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Jasser Haj Youssef (from #Tunisia), playing a #traditional #improvisation of #taqsîm & #muashshah on the viola d'amore at a #UNESCO conference in Paris, with Youssef Hbeisch (#percussions):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH4YUwtfIhE
#forgottenistruments #violadamore #orientalmusic #classical #arabicmusic #maqâm #modalmusic -
Jasser Haj Youssef (from #Tunisia), playing a #traditional #improvisation of #taqsîm & #muashshah on the viola d'amore at a #UNESCO conference in Paris, with Youssef Hbeisch (#percussions):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH4YUwtfIhE
#forgottenistruments #violadamore #orientalmusic #classical #arabicmusic #maqâm #modalmusic -
But there's a life (and love) for the #violadamore even outside the (relative) niche of #Baroque music... Like the violin or viola, it's a #fretless instrument, which means that beyond the standards of #Western #music, it can easily play any mode or scale such as #Oriental ones. #Tunisian #musician and #musicologist Jasser Haj Youssef, for example, has "imported" the viola d'amore to the art of the #maqâm, using the sympathetic strings to create a richer, deeper sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNm7GEvb768 -
But there's a life (and love) for the #violadamore even outside the (relative) niche of #Baroque music... Like the violin or viola, it's a #fretless instrument, which means that beyond the standards of #Western #music, it can easily play any mode or scale such as #Oriental ones. #Tunisian #musician and #musicologist Jasser Haj Youssef, for example, has "imported" the viola d'amore to the art of the #maqâm, using the sympathetic strings to create a richer, deeper sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNm7GEvb768