{{Short description|Musical Notation}} {{Expand Persian}} [[File:Arabic maqam jins sikah.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Characteristic trichord of maqam sigah, on E half-flat]] '''Segah''' (Kurdish: سێ گاە; {{langx|fa|سهگاه}}; {{langx|az|Segah}}; {{langx|tr|Segâh}}) (From Persian ''se-gāh'', سه + گاه = سهگاه "third place") is a musical mugham in traditional Kurdish, Persian, Azeri and Turkish traditional music.
== Description == It is named ''Segah'' because the maqam starts on the third degree in relation to the "basic" "Magham" scale found in Rast. Sigah features a half-flat tonic and a half-flat fifth scale degree; as such, it has an unstable sound that tends to favor its own third degree, found on a whole tone.
This is the third mode and consists of 0.5-1-1 tone which is created in amalgamation of three tetra-chords with the reach method. Segah mugam associated with love, romantic feelings at listener.<ref name=atmo>[http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai142_folder/142_articles/142_aida_repression_music.html Politically Correct Music]</ref> Subgenres of Segah includes: egah Zabul-Segah-Bardasht, Maye, Muya, Manandi-Mukhalif, Segah, high-pitched tone Zabul, Manandi-Hisar (in high-pitched tone), Manandi-Mukhalif (in high-pitched tone), Ashig-Kush, Mubarriga, Zabul, space for Segah, Kharij Segah-Bardasht, Maye, Takhtigah, Mubarriga, Manandi-Hisar, Manandi-Mukhalif, high-pitched tone Segah, space for Kharij Segah. Other mugams relating to the Segah are: Hashym Segah-sol, Kharij Segah-si, Mirza-Huseyn-lya, Orta Segah-mi, Zabul Segah.<ref name=7fret>[http://www.mugamradio.az/about-mugam/mugams/ There are seven main modes and three auxiliary modes in Azerbaijan Mugam] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807090710/http://www.mugamradio.az/about-mugam/mugams/ |date=2010-08-07 }}</ref>
In classical Turkish music, it denotes the "si half flat" pitch and the melody type in this pitch.
Middle eastern Sephardic Jews make heavy use of this in their liturgy. For the prayers during Parashas Bo, Beha'alotecha, and Eqeb, parashas that are the "third" in their respective books, maqam Sigah is used. It is also applied on holidays. This maqam is linked to the holiday of Purim due to the abundance of pizmonim related to the holiday in this maqam (no doubt because the maqam is of Persian origin, and the events of the book of Esther take place in Persia). This maqam is also of importance because it is the maqam that is always used for the cantillation of the Torah.<ref>[http://www.pizmonim.org/ Sephardic Pizmonim Project], Gabriel Shrem</ref>
Related maqamat are Huzam and Iraq.
==See also== *Dastgah
==External links== *[http://www.maqamworld.com/en/maqam/sikah.php Sikah page] from Maqam World
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Category:Music of Azerbaijan Category:Modes (music) Category:Mugham modes Category:Radif (music)