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Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek System
The Turkish makam ( Turkish: ''makam'' pl. ''makamlar''; from the Arabic word ''maqām'' ) is a system of melody types used in Turkish classical music Ottoman music () or Turkish classical music (, or more recently ) is the tradition of classical music originating in the Ottoman Empire. Developed in the palace, major Ottoman cities, and Sufi lodges, it traditionally features a solo singer wi ... and Turkish folk music. It provides a complex set of rules for composing and performance. Each makam specifies a unique Musical tuning, intervalic structure (''cinsler'' meaning genus (music), genera) and melodic development (''seyir''). Whether a fixed composition (''Beste (Turkish music), beste'', ''şarkı'', ''peşrev'', ''Ceremony, âyin'', etc.) or a spontaneous composition (''gazel'', ''Taqsim, taksim'', recitation of ''Quran, Kuran-ı Kerim'', ''Mawlid, Mevlid'', etc.), all attempt to follow the melody type. The rhythmic counterpart of makam in Turkish music is Usul (music), us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
