Hijaz
- Effect
- Tawadu: humility
- Hour
- Between the two prayers (noon and afternoon)
- Gathering
- Dervishes
Known in the twelve modes as Hijazi, Hijaz is today one of the four maqams of the Hijaz family. Its scale is formed by adding a rast pentachord on neva to the hijaz tetrachord on dugah; its dominant is neva. Its progression most often descends and ascends, and in the end it comes to a full rest on dugah. The peşrevs of Nayi Osman Dede and Aziz Dede, and the Hijaz Mevlevi ayin, are among the known works of this maqam.
Both in the account attributed to Safi al-Din and in the list attributed to al-Farabi, Hijaz is the maqam of humility. For its time, too, two separate traditions give the same hour: Şuuri, "between the two prayers"; Shirvani, between noon and afternoon. Şuuri sets Hijaz apart for the gathering of dervishes; for the night, from the night prayer until dawn, he advises playing sometimes Hijaz, sometimes Shahnaz. Its sign is Sagittarius.
Sources: Scale and works: Özkan, "Hicaz", TDV İA, XVII, 440-441 (1998). Twelve modes: Özkan, "Makam", TDV İA. Humility and the time between noon and afternoon: Akdoğan, AÜİFD XLVIII/1, 80-81; Kalender, AÜİFD XXIX, 362. Time, night, gathering, sign: Şuuri, Turabi edition, 164-166.
What is written here is not a treatment recommendation; it is one culture's way of hearing sound.