شعوبي ابراهيم - مقام اورفة وياهل المروة Maqam Urfa - Sha'ubi Ibrahim
Sha'ubi Ibrahim al-A'dhami
Baghdad, Iraq
- tahrir and first verse missing from recording.
- taqsim on qanun in urfa mode (00:00)
- a verse in urfa mode (00:25)
- taqsim on the ney in urfa mode (00:50)
- two verses in urfa mode (01:25)
- taqsim on the santur in urfa mode (02:01)
- instrumental refrain in urfa mode and 4/4 wahda tawila rhythm (02:30)
- a piece called Husayni (rast on c' and bayat on d') (02:55)
- return to urfa (03:15) followed by the Arwah piece (03:20)
- a piece called Ushaysh (bayat on g) sung to the words wiyay, wiyay, akh akh akh (03:28)
- instrumental refrain starting in bayat and ending in urfa (03:40)
- a piece called Dasht (bayat on g) consisting of a sung verse (04:03)
- a piece called Hijaz Diwan (hijaz on g) (04:53)
- return to urfa mode (05:11)
- taqsim on qanun starting in husayni and modulating to hijaz and ending with a return to urfa (05:25)
- three verses in urfa mode (06:14)
- taslim, slightly abbreviated here, with a descent to the tonic g using a bayat tetrachord (07:35)
- Ancient Baghdadi peste in bayat mode and 6/4 sengin sama'i rhythm (07:48)
Vocals and joza: Sha'ubi Ibrahim Khalil al-A'dhami
Santur: Abdallah Ali
Qanun: Hasan al-Shakarchi
Nay: Khudhr Elias
Oud: Muhammad Sa'id
Dumbuk: Abdul Razzaq Majid al-Shibli
Daf zinjari: Ali al-Dabbu
Naqqara: Kan'an Muhammad Salih
You used to have on the blog some explanations and translations into English. Is it possible to bring that back, for those of us whose level of Arabic is below what it should be?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, yes I will make sure to add notes in English as well in the future. I never got much feedback for it so I thought it was probably unnecessary. Thanks for the reminder.
DeleteZeyad
Thanks a lot!
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