Al-Maqam Al-Iraqi is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam. The instrumentation of the ensemble used in maqam al-iraqi, Jalghi baghdadi, includes a qari', three santur (hammered dulcimers), juzah, tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq. The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or Iraqi dialect (then called zuhayri).

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  • Al-Maqam Al-Iraqi is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam. The instrumentation of the ensemble used in maqam al-iraqi, Jalghi baghdadi, includes a qari', three santur (hammered dulcimers), juzah, tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq. The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or Iraqi dialect (then called zuhayri). A complete maqam concert is known as fasl (plural fusul) and is named after the first maqam: bayat, hijaz, rast, nawa, or husayni. (Touma 1996, p.55, 57) A typical performance includes the following sections (ibid, p.56): tahrir, sometimes badwah taslum finalis Some well known Iraqi maqam performers include:Mulla Hassan Albabouji, Khalil Rabbaz, Rahman Nafthar, Rubin Rajman, Ahmed Zaydan, Mulla Uthman al-Mawsili, Jamil Al Baghdadi, Salman Moshe, Rashid al-Qundarchi, Yousif Huriesh, Najem Al Shiqley, Abbas Kambeer, Mohammed al-Qubanchi, Yusuf Omar, Hamed al-Sa'adi, Farida, and Hussein al-A'dhami.
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  • Al-Maqam Al-Iraqi is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam. The instrumentation of the ensemble used in maqam al-iraqi, Jalghi baghdadi, includes a qari', three santur (hammered dulcimers), juzah, tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq. The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or Iraqi dialect (then called zuhayri).
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  • Maqam al-iraqi
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