the MAQAM project  

Sh**. Arabs and Jews don't have a problem in general. It is those who live in فلسطين, they should go back to where they are originally from and not take other people's land by killing them.

+RezBabe Make sure you check out the Japanese oud player and Malachy O'Neil playing traditional maqam www.oxfordmaqam.com/audiovideo.html

> So - Is maqam proprietary or can anybody play it? Are Arabic instruments proprietary or can anybody play them? If contemporary Jews led by Rabbi Goodman are playing Jewish music on maqam forms and singing Hebrew Scripture with them, then it is contemporary Jewish music ... not "ancient world music".

Um, does the name "Eliezer Pennywhistler" tell you something?

Not an expert. But the rast is like the major in arabic and iranian music.

It's Arabic *Not* ottoman music

Half of Arabs are white. The only real arabs are from the Persian Gulf.

lol it took so little time for people to change their minds and decide jews are white people

New York City

@@ZachFredman thank you

Same question

Arab maqams

@@bilalbataineh8367 I know what maqam is this, my question was about the synagogue

Bnai jeshurun

So you hope to claim Arabic art as "originally Persian"??!

@@rexmarson7914 tell you more interesting fact? who put the first book of arabic grammar was persian too :)

@@MegaWild71 oh wow do you know his name. I'm genuinely interested

@@scottsterling7659 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibawayh

I'm willing to admit that the Persians may have cultivated these maqamat before the Arabs but for some reason nowadays Persian music is unbearable to listen to whereas classical arabic music is sweet as sugar. Even in this video you can tell the difference in style between the oud and violin players who are definitely Ashkenaz (European) but know how to play in Arabic style and the kanun player who was clearly playing in Persian style with all of it's never ending trills that lead to nowhere. I couldn't wait for him to stop so that the others could get back to playing. It sounded like he was trying too hard think of something and I was waiting for him to come up with something nice but then he just kept banging away at his kanun with nothing special whereas the oudist & violinist effortlessly produced some good taqasimaat. PS I thought that that "rabbi" was getting up to sing some major mawwal. Instead he burst the bubble by delivering some corny meditations about beginning and end and Rast and unending circles etc kinda like that kanun playing. I can't believe the people over there stand for that drivel. There is a mix of talented people and clearly untalented people on that stage. They need to get rid of the untalented ones. PPS What is the point of that accordion if the musician won't play it? Hello. Those things sound awesome in rast. Why won't they give him some airtime?