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Miras-ı Saz

Usul

Ceng-i Harbi

A small usul of 10 beats; it is written in 10/8 in beat groups of 2+2+3+3: düm-tek, düm-tek, düm-tek-tek, düm-tek-tek. İsmail Hakkı Özkan and Ekrem Karadeniz give the same pattern; the Miras-ı Saz archive has no piece in this usul.

Related: Ceng-i Harbi metronomeKüçük usul (small usul)

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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.

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Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, “Usul” maddesi; İ. H. Özkan ve M. E. Karadeniz (Muhammed Aydın, Türk Müziği Edvarları ve Nazariyat Kitaplarında Usûl Anlayışı (Marmara Üniv. yüksek lisans tezi, 2019), s. 94 ve 123)