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Dîvân

A genre of folk poetry written in aruz (quantitative) metre, and the melody sung to it. In folk music it is mostly performed as a free-rhythm uzun hava; there are also examples composed in an usul, such as Kemânî Nevres Pasha's Şehnâz dîvân.

Example pieces from the archive (1 in total)

Vardım ki Yurdundan Ayağ · Kemani Nevres Paşa

Dîvân works in the sheet music archive

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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 (1 in total)

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