The ''saz semai'' (also spelled in
Turkish
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as ''saz sema'i'', ''saz sema-i'', ''saz sema i'', ''saz semaī'', ''saz semâ'î'', ''sazsemai'', ''saz semaisi'', or ''sazsemaisi'' and in the
Arab world as ''samâi'') is an instrumental
form
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in
Ottoman classical music. It was typically the closing movement of a ''
fasıl'' (i.e. suite). The saz semai is metered and typically uses the
usul (rhythmic structure) called ''aksak semai''.
A saz semai is typically in 4
movement
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s, called ''hane'' (lit. "house"), each movement followed by a ''
teslim'' (
refrain
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).
The ''teslim'' and the first three ''hane'' are usually in rhythm structure 10/8, unlike the fourth ''hane'' which will be in 6/4.
Common Saz Semaisi
Some Saz Semaisi are very known and played in the all makam music area (From Greece to Iraq, and from Iraq to Morocco).
Here a few of them :
*Samâi al Thakil - also called : Arap saz semai. This samai is in makam Bayati.
*Samâi Al-Aryan - also called : Samâi Bayati.
*Samâi Shad Araban - Shet Araban Saz Semaisi. Composed by
Tanburi Cemil Bey.
*Samâi Husseyni. Composed by
Tatyos Efendi.
*Samâi Nahawand - Nihavend Saz Semaisi. Composed by the son of Tanburi Cemil Bey : Mas'ud Cemil Bey.
Saz Semai 's Composers
*
Tanburi Cemil Bey was a noted composer of ''saz semai''.
*Ismail Hakki Bey
*Misirli Ibrahim Effendi
Bibliography
*Walter Feldman : "Music of the Ottoman court : Makam, composition in the early Ottoman instrumental repertoire" ; Intercultural Music Studies, 1996.
External links
''Saz semai'' page
See also
* Sama'i
* Yürük semai
Turkish music
Turkish words and phrases
Musical forms
Forms of Turkish makam music
Forms of Ottoman classical music
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