Re: Makam or Maqam

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Feb 2010, at 12:51, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> > Currently, notation/world.itely mixes 'maqam' / 'maqams' and  
> > 'makam' /
> > 'makamlar'. Is this correct for Arabic/Turkish respectively, or  
> > should
> > it be unified?
>
> Seems like "maqam" is Arabic and "makam" is Turkish.
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maqam and links
> therefrom.

Yes, they are different:maqam are the Arabic, see
  http://www.maqamworld.com/
They largely use the Persian system of dividing interval into  
microtonal one, but use notational symbols from E24 to notate them  
(though not played in that tuning system).

Turkish makam use a different way of dividing intervals, and alos  
different notation, see:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makam
The notational system there is called Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek (AEU); there  
are some others.

So "maqam" and "makam" should be kept separate. Instead explain the  
difference.

  Hans