shashmaqam
Shashmaqom ( ; ; ) is a Central Asian musical genre (typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) which may have developed in the city of Bukhara. Shashmaqam means the six Maqams (modes) in the Persian language, dastgah being the name for Persian modes, and maqams being the name for modes more generally.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Shashmaqam
- Music genre.native_name
- Шашмақом / Shashmaqom
- Music genre.image
- Ансамбль народных исполнителей.jpg
- Music genre.alt
- People sitting in rows of chairs, listening to Shashmaqom being played
- Music genre.caption
- Shashmaqam in Tajikistan
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Tajik and Uzbek music
- Music genre.instruments
- Long-necked lutes, dayra, and sato
- Intangible heritage.ICH
- Shashmaqom music
- Intangible heritage.Countries
- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
- Intangible heritage.ID
- 00089
- Intangible heritage.Region
- APA
- Intangible heritage.Year
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Shashmaqom ( ; ; ) is a Central Asian musical genre (typical of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) which may have developed in the city of Bukhara. Shashmaqam means the six Maqams (modes) in the Persian language, dastgah being the name for Persian modes, and maqams being the name for modes more generally.
It is a refined sort of music, with lyrics derived from Sufi poems about divine love. The instruments of shashmaqоm provide an austere accompaniment to the voices. They consist, at most concerts, of a pair of long-necked lutes (rawap, tar, tanbur or dutar), the dayra, or frame drum, which, with its jingles, is very much like a tambourine, and the sato, or bowed tanbur.