Music of the Ottoman court : : makam, composition and the early Ottoman instrumental repertoire / / by Walter Feldman.

• VerfasserIn: Feldman, Walter,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.; Ali Ufkî, 1610-1675.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English

"Between 1600 and 1750 Ottoman Turkish music differentiated itself from an older Persianate art music and developed the genres antecedent to modern Turkish art music. Based on a translation of Demetrius Cantemir's seminal "Book of the Science of Music" from the early eighteenth century, this work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography. These present a synthetic picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music. A detailed comparison of items in the notated Collections of Cantemir and of Bobowski-from fifty years earlier-together with relevant treatises, reveal key aspects of modality, melodic progression and rhythmic structures"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Musicians and Performance. Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court ; Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court ; Dervishes and Turkish Art Music ; Instruments and Instrumentalists ; The Ottoman Cyclical Concert-Formats Fasil and Ayin -- Part 2. Makam. The General Scale of Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Music ; Makam and Terkib ; Melodic Progression ; The Taksim and Modulation -- Part 3. Peşrev and Semai ; The Peşrev/Pishrow ; The Ottoman Peşrev ; Peşrevs and Analyses ; The Seventeenth-Century Persian Peşrev ; Transmission of the Ottoman Peşrev Repertoire ; The Instrumental Semai ; Conclusion.