Let’s start where we really should — with the Iraqi Maqam.
Classical Iraqi music, like much Arab classical music, is deeply passionate, poetic and has a complex internal structure based on “maqams,” interlocking scales (for those familiar with musical terminology, more like “modes“) that indicate a relationship of notes that creates a particular desired emotion or mood. In essence the Iraqi maqam originated over a thousand years ago, but they came together in their modern form in the mid-1800s. Maqamat (the plural of “maqams”) in Iraq are slower than most others in the Arab world and are predominantly in minor keys.
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