Riqq mvim_dc_me_090 - Museu Virtual de Instrumentos Musicais

RiqqAuthor not identified | MIDC

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Audio

Instrument: Riqq
Source: Demonstrative audio sample from the Musik & Teatermuseet, available at MIMO’s website (2014).

Video

Instrument: Riqq
Work: Not provided
Composer: Not provided
Intérprete: Brian Kay
Source: Video originally published by the Emily Lau Youtube Channel, titled “Taqsim Riqq (Riq)”.

Further Information

Description

The instrument has a wooden body painted inside and out, with a membrane made of skin on the upper part. There are five double openings with ten pairs of iron disks (called jingles). The decorations are in yellow, green, red and blue, painted over a red background. The sounds produced by the instrument have undetermined pitch. To play, the musician uses the fingers, making the jingles sound. The fingers of the right or governing play most part of the rhythms, whilst the other hand holds the instrument and plays light moves that make the jingles sound. During the restoration work undergone in 2013, a tape to hold the membrane was included and varnish was applied to protect the decorations on the instrument’s body.

Learn more

Adufe from Egypt. Contains wooden rim, and the membrane can be made of sturgeon’s or goat’s skin, although there are Western versions made of synthetic material. It presents a rather diverse melodic percussive demanding a great degree of virtuosity from its interpreters. Played with fingers, using the timber intonation of “jingles” (metallic discs placed along the rim in pairs). These beat onto one another, due to the articulation’s impulses, and produce the sound that characterizes the riqq. The classification “idiophone” comes from the jingles (also known as batinelas, platinelas or timbers). The distinction given to this intonation is common, when produced with combination with fingers or even by “solo jingles”. The Museum has two riqq specimens: one has a brown rim, ornate with pearl squares and triangles; another, with a painted rim inside and out, receiving colorful decorations in a red background, as well as a blue painted membrane, with Arab characteristics.
Text written by Pedro Sá, percussion professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

General Data

Classification

211.311 Single-skin frame drums without handle

Additional Names

Riq (Source: BASE MINERVA, 2014), Sonaja, Tar (Source: MIGUEZ,1890-1895).

Item Data

Code

mvim_dc_me_090

Date

19th century

Place of Manufacture

Morocco

Manufacturer / Author

Author not identified

Material

iron, skin, wood

Dimensions

D=21cm H=8cm

Marks and Inscriptions

No marks or inscriptions

Origin

Donated by João Baptista da Motta

Location

MIDC/EM/UFRJ 211.3 I2 Shelf 5

Bibliography

ALMEIDA, 1994.
BASE MINERVA, 2014.
BERKLEY, 2009.
BETHENCOURT; BORDAS; CANO; CARVAJAL; SOUZA; DIAS; LUENGO; PALACIUS; PIQUER, ROCHA, RODRIGUEZ; RUBIALES; RUIZ, 2012.
BRAGA, 1973.
BRANDÂO, 2013.
CARVALHO, 1905.
MIGUEZ, 1890-1895.
BERKLEY, 2009.
MIMO, 2014.
ROLLA, 1974.
PEDRO SÁ, 2014.
SOARES, 1990.