Al MAQAM
The general partner of the NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL PROJECTS "AL MAQAM", represented by Professor Efim Anatolievich Rezvan, is the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences - successor to the first state public museum, the famous Kunstkamera, founded by Peter I in 1714.
AL MAQAM
(Arabic – ENCAMPMENT, PLACE OF ENCAMPMENT) - MULTIVALUED TERM IN THE CULTURE OF MIDDLE EAST.
SEVERAL ITS DEFINITIONS:
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ONE OF KEY CONCEPTS IN THE ARAB, IRANIAN, TURKIC MUSIC, THE MUSIC PRINCIPLE DESIGNATED
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INTEGRATED TEXTOMOUSUAL COMPOSITION IN MIDDLE EASTERN TRADITIONAL MUSIC, INCLUDING NOT ONLY SPECIFIC METHODS OF COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES, BUT ALSO CONNOTATIONS OF MUSICAL GENRE
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SPIRITUAL STATE ON THE WAY OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT, WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED BY CERTAIN STABILITY (ENCAMPMENT OF TARICAT IN SUFISM).
Image logo - graphic metaphor of integral musical composition and totality of Eastern musical traditions:
A form of rhombus used as a symbol is formed by wide live vertical lines. These verticals, jossly and mobile, remind of natural textures from nature and graphic image of sound.
The form of the phombus - the metaphor of equilibrium, completness and continuity.
Logo schematically images musical composition:
Vertical lines - this is a musical text limited by rhombus. They are a symbol of integrality and completeness.
Or, vertical lives are the logical storical music traditions, while a rhombus simbolizes their presence on planet Earth together in equilibrium, in friendship, in harmony.