Lesson 18 / 19 · New makams
Karcığar
A makam with Dügah (A) as its tonic and Neva (D) as its dominant, bringing together the colors of Uşşak and Hicaz.
Read the makam page
Its scale, tonic and dominant pitches, structure and seyir.
Listen to the scale
Ascending and descending scale: keep the tonic in your ear.
Test your ear
Five questions: which makam does the scale being played belong to? Get at least four right.
Play and get scored
Turn on the microphone and slowly play or sing the scale from tonic to tonic. We measure how many commas each pitch deviates; 70% or more passes.
Play a piece in this makam
Play a piece from the sheet music archive and follow the score.
Lesson notes
Structure
It is formed by joining the Uşşak tetrachord (K S T) on Dügah with the Hicaz pentachord (S A S T) on Neva.
Melodic progression (seyir)
The melody moves through the Hicaz pentachord around Neva and comes to rest on Dügah through the Uşşak tetrachord.
In the dictionary
A compound makam with karar Dügah and güçlü Neva. Its scale is made of the Uşşak tetrachord plus a Hicaz pentachord built on Neva; it is also very popular in folk music. Dictionary entry
Example pieces from the archive (25 in total)
- Benli'yi Aldım Kaçaktan · Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi
- Bilmem ki Safâ · Leon Hancıyan
- Ah Efendim Dinle Gel · Hâfız Yûsuf Efendi
- Aldın Dil-i Nâşâdımı · Hanende Ali Bey
- Bir Rum Dilbere · Tanbûrî Mustafa Çavuş
The Karcığar makam page: scale, seyir and all its pieces
Related concepts
- Uşşak tetrachord: A tetrachord made of a büyük mücenneb, a küçük mücenneb and a tanini (K S T: 8 + 5 + 9 commas); built on Dügah it gives the pitches Dügah–Segah–Çargah–Neva.
- Hicaz tetrachord: A tetrachord made of a küçük mücenneb, an augmented second and a küçük mücenneb (S A S: 5 + 12 + 5 commas); built on Dügah it gives the pitches Dügah–Dik kürdi–Nim hicaz–Neva.