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He was born in the Yenikapı quarter of Istanbul; he was the son of Ebûbekir Dede, sheikh of the Yenikapı Mevlevihane, and the brother of Ali Nutkî Dede and Abdürrahim Künhî Dede. He studied Arabic, Persian and the religious sciences with Halil Efendi. During his elder brother's tenure as sheikh he served as neyzenbaşı (head ney player), and on his brother's death he became sheikh of the lodge. He composed Mevlevi âyins in the Acem-bûselik and Isfahan makams and created new makams and the şîrin usul. Encouraged by Selim III, he wrote the Tedkîk u Tahkîk, which describes 136 makams and 21 usuls, and the Tahrîriyye, in which he explained his own notation system.[1, 2]
Notation: He completed Tahrîriyye in 1794 by order of Selim III; in this abjad-based notation the letters are written without dots, beat counts are placed as numerals beneath the letters, and the lyrics are divided into syllables.
Firsts: The dot-shaped rest sign (teneffüs) appears for the first time in Turkish music in his notation; he used it to write Selim III's Sûzidilârâ ayin, known as the first Mevlevi ayin to be notated.
Theory: In Tedkîk u Tahkîk (1794, supplement 1797–98) he described 37 pitches on the ney and covered 14 makams, 136 compound makams (terkip) with the supplement, and 21 usuls.
New compound makams: He introduced the makams dilâviz, dildâr, gülruh, hisarkürdî and rûhefzâ, and the 22-beat Şîrin usul.
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