The terms of makam music with short, clear definitions: pitches and intervals, makams, usuls, forms, instruments, performance tradition and notation. You can listen to terms that have a sound example with the ▶ button.
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Lyric vocabulary
The scent of weeping and lament: bû means “scent”, zâr “lament, weeping”. In the song Rahmi Bey composed after the death of his friend Şevki Bey it conveys the atmosphere of mourning.
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