A Comparative Study on notations of Uyghur Muqam in Xinjiang,China and Persian-Arabic Maqam
The Uyghur Muqam in Xinjiang,China has both connections and differences with the Persian-Arabic Maqam.Muqam and Maqam have many characteristics of music sound system,tem-perament,tone row,interval,and tune.Many of them are musical forms that cannot be accurately expressed by Western notation.Therefore,the"inheritance"of Muqam and Maqam urgently needs the establishment of a non-Western-centric notation system.Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam has a special historical status and inheritance method.The Muqam notation has experienced a complicated and tortuous development process after the founding of People's the Republic of China,and it has not yet been perfected.In the process of modernization,the Persian-Arabic Maqam music phenomenon has adopted ALU(Ali Ufkî)notation and other methods of notation.The widespread application of ALU notation in the Persian-Arabic Maqam music phenomenon provides the possibility for written re-cords of oral music of ethnic minorities in China,although it is still not free from the shackles of Eu-rocentrism.
Muqam in XinjiangPersian-Arabic MaqamNotationComparative Study