Pitch and interval

Buselik

An in-between pitch a tanini above Dügah; written in Western notation as natural B. It defines the Buselik tetrachord and the color of the Buselik and Nihavend family of makams.

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Example pieces from the archive (26 in total)

Bir Pür Cefâ Hoş Dilberdir · III. Selim
Her Gördüğü Periye · Buhûrîzâde Mustafa Itrî
Aldın Aklım Ey Meh-Veş · Rif'at Bey
Bir Misli · Şâkir Ağa
Bir Peri-Rûyin · Hampartzum Limonciyan

The Buselik 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.

Vikipedi, “Türk müziği” maddesi.

Example pieces from the archive (26 in total)

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