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Thus, when Arabic music is written in European musical notation, a slashed or reversed flat sign is used to indicate a quarter-tone flat, a standard flat symbol for a half-tone flat, and a flat sign combined with a slashed or reversed flat sign for a three-quarter-tone flat, sharp with one vertical line for quarter sharps, standard sharp symbol ...
Saba (Arabic: صبا, Turkish: Saba or Sabâ, Turkmen: sabah) is a kind of musical scale used in both Arabic music and Turkish classical music.This article covers both the Arabic jins and Queen and maqam called "Saba" as well as the similar Turkish makam of the same name.
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
The double harmonic major scale [1] is a musical scale with a flattened second and sixth degree. This scale is enharmonic to the Mayamalavagowla raga, Bhairav raga, Byzantine scale, Arabic scale (Hijaz Kar), [1] [2] and Gypsy major scale. [3] It can be likened to a gypsy scale because of the diminished step between the 1st and 2nd degrees.
The Phrygian dominant scale (a mode of the harmonic minor scale) The Arabic scales; The Hungarian minor scale; The Byzantine music scales (called echoi) The Persian scale; Scales such as the pentatonic scale may be considered gapped relative to the diatonic scale. An auxiliary scale is a scale other than the
Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuela, as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica. Tablature was common during the ...
Quarter tone scale, or 24 tone equal temperament; A seventeen tone unequal tuning that was historically used to describe Arabic music; Major locrian scale, a scale similar to locrian, also the aeolian mode with ♭ 5th and ♯ 3rd, Phrygian dominant scale with ♭ 5th and ♯ 2nd, or Blues Leading-Tone scale with ♭ 6th and ♯ tonic.
Arabic maqamat are based on a musical scale of 7 notes that repeats at the octave. Some maqamat have 2 or more alternative scales (e.g. Rast, Nahawand and Hijaz). Maqam scales in traditional Arabic music are microtonal, not based on a twelve-tone equal-tempered musical tuning system, as is the case in modern Western music.