Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

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Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

Jan 16, 2024
English | 588 pages | Brill Academic Pub | 2024 | PDF | 13 MB
Between 1600 and 1750, Ottoman Turkish music underwent a distinct evolution, separating itself from an older Persianate art music while establishing the foundational genres for contemporary Turkish art music. The initial translation of Demetrius Cantemir's groundbreaking "Book of the Science of Music" from the early eighteenth century serves as the inaugural effort to consolidate contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travelers' accounts, and iconography.

These components collectively offer a comprehensive portrayal of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music. Through a meticulous examination of entries in the notated Collections of Cantemir and Bobowski, dating back fifty years earlier, alongside pertinent treatises, crucial aspects of modality, melodic progression, and rhythmic structures come to light.

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