Pitch and interval

Acem

An in-between pitch 4 commas (a bakiye) above Hüseyni; written in Western notation as natural F. It is often used in place of Eviç when descending in makams of the Rast and Uşşak families.

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Acemaşîrân Sazsemâîsi · Udi İbrahim Efendi
Acemaşîrân Peşrev · Neyzenbaşı Kaymakam
Acemaşîrân Peşrev · Neyzen Hüseyin Fahreddin Dede
Acemaşîrân Peşrev · Gazi Giray Han
Acemaşîrân Sazsemâîsi · Gazi Giray Han

The Acemaşîrân makam page: scale, seyir and all its pieces

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The definitions were written in our own words, drawing on sources such as the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Yılmaz Öztuna's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Music and Wikipedia; pitch and interval values follow the Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek system. This content has not yet been reviewed by an expert; if you spot a mistake, please write to us.

TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi

Yılmaz Öztuna, Türk Musikisi: Akademik Klasik Türk San'at Musikisi'nin Ansiklopedik Sözlüğü, Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.

H. Sadettin Arel, Türk Mûsikîsi Nazariyatı Dersleri (haz. Onur Akdoğu), Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara, 1991.

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Example pieces from the archive (37 in total)

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