- Iqa'
"Iqa
' " (Arabic: إيقاع; plural "iqa'at", إيقاعات) arerhythmic mode s or rhythmic patterns used inArabic music . [http://books.google.com/books?id=612I67dSzPkC&pg=PA201&dq=iqa%27+rhythmic&sig=W6DdFcD6B0la_GVqZR7plu-96EU] The greatest variety of "iqa"' (ranging from two to 48 beats) are used in the "muwashshah " of Arabic classical music. There are reputed to be over 100 "iqa"' , [http://books.google.com/books?id=GU8yAAAAMAAJ&q=iqa'+%22over+100%22&dq=iqa'+%22over+100%22&pgis=1] but many of them have fallen out of fashion and are rarely if ever used in performance.In
Ottoman classical music , the corresponding term is "usul".List of "iqa"'
*A'raj (اعرج)
*Aghar Aqṣāq (آغر اقصاق)
*Aqṣāq (اقصاق)
*Aqsāq Ifrangi (A'raj Ifrangi)
*Aqṣāq Samā'i (اقصاق سماعي)
*Awfar (اوفر)
*'Awīs (عويص)
*Awsat Turkī
*Ayūb (ايوب)
*Baladī (بلدي)
*Barafshān Turkī
*Billīq Shāmī
*Darb Fath
*Dawr Al-Kabīr (دور الكبير)
*Dawr Hindī (دور هندي); also called "Nim Nawākht"
*Dawr Kabīr Halabī
*Dawr Kabīr Turkī
*Dharafāt
*Du-Yak
*Fākhit (فاخت)
*Fākhitah
**Fākhitah 'Arabī
**Fākhitah Turkī
*Far'
*Fikra (فكرة)
*Fikratī
*Frankajīn (فرنكجين)
*Hāwī
*Hazaj 'Arabī
*Hazaj Turkī
*Jurjīnah (جرجينه)
*Katākuftī (كتاكفتي)
*Khafīf 'Arabī
*Khafīf Turkī (خفيف تركي)
*Khūsh Rank (خوش رنك)
*Lamā (Raqsān)
*Mālfūf (ملفوف)
*Maqsūm (مقسوم)
*Maṣmūdi Kabīr (مصمودي كبير)
*Maṣmūdi Saghīr (مصمودي صغير)
*Mudawwar (مدوّر)
*Muhajjar (محجّر)
*Mukhammas (مخمّس)
*Mukhammas Turkī (مخمّس تركي)
*Murabba' (مربّع)
*Naqsh (نقش)
**Naqsh in 17/4
**Naqsh in 18/4
**Naqsh in 21/4
**Naqsh in 36/4
**Naqsh in 40/4
**Naqsh in 52/4
*Nawākht (نواخت)
**Nawākht Hindī (نواخت هندي)
*Nīm Oyūn Havāsī (نيم ايون هواسي)
*Nīm Dawr (نيم دور)
*Nīm Hazaj (نيم هزج)
*Nīm Rawān (نيم روان)
*Nīm Thaqīl Turkī
*Nīm Warash
*Qātiqūfti
*Rahaj (رهج)
*Ramal Halabī
*Ramal Turkī
*Rawān (روان)
*Sādah Dūyek (ساده دو يك)
*Sādāyah
*Samā'ī Ṭā'er (سماعي طائر)
*Samā'ī Thaqīl (سماعي ثقيل)
*Shanbar Halabī (شنبر حلبي)
*Shanbar Kabīr (شنبر كبير)
*Sinkīn Samā'ī (سنكين سماعي)
*Sittatu 'Ashar (ستة عشر)
*Sūfiyān
*Taras
*Thaqīl Turkī (ثقيل تركي)
*Turk Zarb
*Ṭurrah (طرّة)
*Wāhda (واحدة)
*Wāhda Mukallafa (واحدة مكلّفة)
*Warash
*Warshān 'Arabī (ورشان عربي)
*Yūruk Samā'ī (يورك سماعي); also called "Samā'i Dārij" (سماعي دارج)
*Zanjīr Turkī
*Zīr-FakandExternal links
* [http://www.maqamworld.com/rhythms.html Arabic Rhythms page] from Maqam World
ee also
*
Wazn
*Dumbek rhythms
*Usul
*Sa'idi
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