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Maqamat (singular "maqam") are scale-like abstractions in [[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian|Arabic, Turkish, and Persian]] music. This article, for the most part, treats maqamat simply as scales and disregards everything else about them (emotional connotation, melodic idioms, emphasized pitches...). Also note that in performance, depending on the instrument, a wide variety of subtle microtonal inflections may be used, rather than sticking rigidly to the pitches of a scale. This article deals with only the "central" or "canonical" pitches for each note of a maqam. See [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523] for an explanation of the level of abstraction being used here.

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	Maqamat (singular "maqam") are scale-like abstractions in [[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian\|Arabic, Turkish, and Persian]] music. This article, for the most part, treats maqamat simply as scales and disregards everything else about them (emotional connotation, melodic idioms, emphasized pitches...). Also note that in performance, depending on the instrument, a wide variety of subtle microtonal inflections may be used, rather than sticking rigidly to the pitches of a scale. This article deals with only the "central" or "canonical" pitches for each note of a maqam. See [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523] for an explanation of the level of abstraction being used here.		Maqamat (singular "maqam") are scale-like abstractions in [[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian\|Arabic, Turkish, and Persian]] music. This article, for the most part, treats maqamat simply as scales and disregards everything else about them (emotional connotation, melodic idioms, emphasized pitches...). Also note that in performance, depending on the instrument, a wide variety of subtle microtonal inflections may be used, rather than sticking rigidly to the pitches of a scale. This article deals with only the "central" or "canonical" pitches for each note of a maqam. See [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/101523] for an explanation of the level of abstraction being used here.