Rast Panjgah (or Rast; ) is the name of a '' dastgah'' (musical mode) in

Iranian music The music of Iran encompasses music produced by Iranian artists. In addition to the traditional folk and classical genres, it also includes pop and internationally celebrated styles such as jazz, rock, and hip hop. Iranian music influenced oth ...

and of a ''

maqam Maqam, makam, maqaam or maqām (plural maqāmāt) may refer to: Musical structures * Arabic maqam, melodic modes in traditional Arabic music ** Iraqi maqam, a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq * Persian maqam, a notion in Persian clas ...

'' in

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

and related systems of music. ''Rast'' () is a Persian word meaning "right" or "direct". Rast is regarded as the basic ''dastgah'' in

and later on was adopted in

and

Turkish makam music The Turkish makam ( Turkish: ''makam'' pl. ''makamlar''; from the Arabic word ''maqām'' ) is a system of melody types used in Turkish classical music and Turkish folk music. It provides a complex set of rules for composing and performance. Each m ...

, in the same way as the

major scale The major scale (or Ionian mode) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music. It is one of the diatonic scales. Like many musical scales, it is made up of seven notes: the eighth duplicates the first at doubl ...

in Western music, though it is rather different from the

in detail. ''Rast'' features a half-flat third and a half-flat seventh

scale degree In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin. Degrees are useful for indicating the size of intervals ...

s. Middle eastern

Sephardic Jews Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

liken the word ''rast'' to "head" from the Hebrew word ''rosh''. Therefore, they have a tradition of applying maqam rast to the prayers whenever they begin a new Torah book in the weekly Torah portions (this occurs approximately five times a year as there are five books in the Torah).

Rast in different music traditions

Rast (Arabic maqam) Rast is the implementation of the Rast (maqam), Rast maqam in Arabic maqam theory. Its formal account is in 24 Tone Equal Temperament, but according to some musicologists, there are slight variations in practice. Rast is similar to a major scale, ...

Rast (Turkish makam) Rast is the implementation of the Rast (maqam), Rast scale in Turkish makam music. It is in 53 equal temperament, 53 Tone Equal Temperament. Rauf Yekta, Rauf Yekta Bey's model places the Rast Makam as the gamme naturale of Turkish Classical Music ...

Rast pitch class set The Rast pitch class set is a set of scales that are named after the Rast (Turkish makam), Rast makam. For Rast, there is the Rast tetrachord and Rast pentachord. It is used as a Çeşni (Turkish makam theory), Çeşni in many makams. Rast tetra ...

Rast (mugham) Rast () is a musical modal system in traditional mugham Mugham () or Mughamat () is one of the many classical compositions from Azerbaijan, contrasting with tasnif and ashik. It is an art form that weds classical poetry and musical impro ...

* Rast (Persian dastgah)

References

{{reflist Modes (music) Arabic music theory

Rast in different music traditions

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