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searching for your favorite maqam Saba songs
Hi all,
I'm learning about the different maqamat and would like to know of any songs you like that feature the maqam Saba. Thanks! 
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Lessa Faker - by Oum Kalthoum.
2nd verse (10:50 Minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86QIyhzWe8
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Quote: Originally posted by lauraC  | Hi all,
I'm learning about the different maqamat and would like to know of any songs you like that feature the maqam Saba. Thanks! |
Don't know that I "love" it, but "Debna 3a Ghyabak" by George Wassouf is a very good song to practice playing in Maqam Saba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUwgZCFrDM
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This muwwashah, "Anshadi Ya Saba," in 10/8 sama'i meter is also nice:
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I don't know the composer of this Saba sama'i, but I think it may be from Tunisia.
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I would thread lightly John... In certain parts saying you don't love something by Georges Wassouf "sultan al tarab" especially the young voice is
blasphemous   )
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Wow! thank you so much for these songs/links, i look forward to listening to them!!!
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| Quote: Originally posted by SamirCanada | | I would thread lightly John... In certain parts saying you don't love something by Georges Wassouf "sultan al tarab" especially the young voice is
blasphemous ) |
LOL Guess I was "...damning with faint praise..."
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Saba with E natural? It's like the bouzouki Saba. That makes me want to share this song. It's a very nice Greek "Saba"-piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rk9-pOReAs
and as we are there already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJQmTSptCc
ok, one more Greek containing lots of Saba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwMTm6VJu8&t=0s
Back to Arab Saba
Khalas Mosafer is a nice mixed Saba/Bayati piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSK4WV31kw
And of course, Turkish Saba may not miss. Saba Oyun Havası: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRPC9MjC1G4
Peşrev by Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwl5EeBP_I
Saba Saz Semaisi by Aziz Dede: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYaagGc1LGs
It's remarkable how differently Saba sounds in different cultural contexts, not only through intonation, but also Seyir.
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Now that I was playing "Anshadi Ya Saba" I realised it's Maqam Bastanikar. Very nice piece.
I don't know about your transcription's reference recording, but in this version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dG0psYeiHM the dawr is played with Awj Ara using A# and F half raised. Didn't find this set of notes in Arabic
music often.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bugaga | Now that I was playing "Anshadi Ya Saba" I realised it's Maqam Bastanikar. Very nice piece.
I don't know about your transcription's reference recording, but in this version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dG0psYeiHM the dawr is played with Awj Ara using A# and F half raised. Didn't find this set of notes in Arabic
music often. |
Good call. I should have looked further on in the piece...
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