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Miras-ı Saz

Usul

Dolap

A small twelve-beat usul written in 12/8; Ekrem Karadeniz gives it with the strokes tekkâ, tekkâ, tekkâ, düm, tek. The only example in the archive is the uşşak ilahi on words by Yunus Emre beginning “Benim adım dertli dolap”.

Related: İlahiKüçük 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: M. Ekrem Karadeniz, Türk Mûsikîsinin Nazariye ve Esasları (aktaran: Muhammed Aydın, Türk Müziği Edvarları ve Nazariyat Kitaplarında Usûl Anlayışı, Marmara Üniv. yüksek lisans tezi, 2019); SymbTr (MTG, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) usul listesi ve Miras-ı Saz nota arşivi