Usul
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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.
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Usul
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.
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)