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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The tres (Spanish for three) is a three-course chordophone of Cuban origin. The most widespread variety of the instrument is the original Cuban tres with six strings. Its sound has become a defining characteristic of the Cuban son and it is commonly played in a variety of Afro-Cuban genres.
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.
Acoustic scale; Arabic maqam; Basit Suzinak; Blues scale; Diesis; Enharmonic scale; List of musical scales and modes; List of musical symbols; List of notes in Turkish makam theory; List of pitch intervals; Lydian mode; Major fourth and minor fifth; Mode of limited transposition; Musical system of ancient Greece; Nikriz; Pitch class; Quarter ...
Counting from the lowest-pitched, the first three strings, E, A and D, are tuned an octave higher than the equivalent strings on a guitar with standard tuning. The fourth string, G, is doubled as well as also being an octave higher than on a guitar. The remaining two, B and E, are at the same pitch as a standard guitar. Therefore, the bottom E ...