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Kalenderî

A vocal work composed on lyrics written in the kalenderî genre of âşık and divan poetry. It also appears in the mehter repertoire; the examples in the archive are by Mahmud II and Numan Ağa.

Example pieces from the archive (2 in total)

Ebrûlerinin Zahmı Nihandır · 2. Mahmut
Ey Nur-i Basar · Numan Ağa

Kalenderî works in the sheet music archive

Sources

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 (2 in total)

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