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Author:   Walter Feldman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   177
Weight:   1.204kg
ISBN:  

9789004531253

ISBN 10:   9004531254
Pages:   554
Publication Date:   20 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition  1 Chronologies and “Local Modernity”  2 Instrumental Music: Mehterhane and Fasıl-i Sazende Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples xxvi The Structuring of the Book Introduction  1 Turkish Classical Music and Ottoman Music  2 Ethnomusicology and History in Ottoman Turkey The Major Sources for Ottoman Music 1650–1750 Part 1: Musicians and Performance 1 Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court  1 The Ottomans and the Turco-Mongol Courtly Heritage  2 The Emergence of Ottoman Court Music  3 Vocalists and Instrumentalists  4 The Geographical Origin of the Musicians and Location of Musical Centers  5 Changes in the Ruling Class and in the Organization of Music in the Palace  6 Unfree Musicians  7 Free Musicians in the Palace Service and the Bureaucracy 2 Professionalism and the Music of the Ottoman Court: Dervishes and Turkish Art Music  1 The Mevleviye  2 Music in the Other Sunni tarikats  3 Conclusion 3 Instruments and Instrumentalists  1 Sources for the Instrumentation of Ottoman Music  2 Organ and Genre  3 The Ottoman Court Ensemble of the Sixteenth Century  4 The Ottoman Ensemble from the Seventeenth to the Mid-Eighteenth Century  5 Social Contexts of the Turkish Lutes  6 Conclusion 4 The Ottoman Cyclical Concert-Formats Fasil and Ayin  1 The Structure of the Ottoman Fasıl  2 The Fasl-i Sazende  3 Structure of the Fasl-i Sazende  4 The Mevlevi Ayin Part 2: Makam 5 The General Scale of Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Music  1 Nomenclature of Scale Degree and Mode  2 Cantemir’s General Scale  3 The Problem of the Note Segah  4 Saba, Uzzal, Beyati, Hisar  5 Conclusion  6 A Note on Symbols 6 Makam and Terkib  1 Other Modal Entities  2 Terkib and Şube Structures  3 The Terkib in the Eighteenth Century 7 Melodic Progression  1 Seyir in Compositions  2 Cantemir’s Terminology for Melodic Progression  3 Hızır Ağa and Harutin 8 The Taksim and Modulation  1 The Generic Nature and Origin of the Taksim  2 Turkish and Persian “Taksim” in Cantemir’s Treatise  3 Modulation and the Taksim  4 Modulation and the Küll-i Külliyat Genre  5 Conclusion Part 3: Peşrev and Semai 9 The Peşrev/Pishrow  1 The Peşrev as Genre  2 Origin and Structure of the Peşrev/Pishrow  3 Generic Variation within the Ottoman Peşrev 10 The Ottoman Peşrev  1 Periodization of the Turkish Peşrev  2 Factors Leading to Change in the Formal Structure of the Peşrev  3 Conclusion 11 Peşrevs and Analyses  1 Period I (1500–1550)  2 Period 2 (1550–1600)  3 Period 3 (1600–1650)  4 Period 4 (1650–1690)  5 Neyzen Ali Hoca  6 The Peşrevs of Cantemir  7 Muhayyer Muhammes  8 Buselik-Aşirani Berefşan  9 Conclusion 12 The Seventeenth-Century Persian Peşrev  1 Peşrevs and Analyses 13 Transmission of the Ottoman Peşrev Repertoire  1 Transmission of the Peşrev during the Seventeenth Century: Peşrevs and Analyses  2 The Nazire (“Imitatio”)  3 Conclusion  4 Transmission of the Peşrev in the Eighteenth Century 14 The Instrumental Semai  1 Semai-i Sazende in the Later Seventeenth Century  2 Periodization of the Semai-i Sazende/Saz Semaisi  3 Analysis of the Seventeenth-Century Semai Documents  4 Semai-i Lenk/Aksak Semai  5 Transformation of the Old Semai  6 Conclusion 15 Conclusion  1 The Departure of Turkey from the “Persianate” Musical Sphere  2 The New Ottoman Style of the Eighteenth Century Glossary Figure Credits Bibliography Index

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Walter Feldman, PhD (1980, Columbia University), is a leading scholar of both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. His most recent publications are From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes (Edinburgh U Press, 2022) and Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (Oxford U Press, 2016).

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