Pitch and interval

Kürdi

An in-between pitch 4 commas (a bakiye) above Dügah; written in Western notation as B bakiye flat (5 commas below B). It defines the Kürdi tetrachord and makams such as Nihavend and Kürdi.

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Example pieces from the archive (5 in total)

Kürdî Peşrev · Şehzade Sultan Korkud
Âşık-i Dilhasteye Rahmeyle · Ahmet Avni Konuk
Kametin Serv-i Sehîdir · Molla Rif'at Süleyman Efendi
Kürdî Örnek-Öz · Hüseyin Sadettin Arel
Seyr-i Kürdî'yi · Ahmet Avni Konuk

The Kürdi makam page: scale, seyir and all its pieces

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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 (5 in total)

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