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March

Marş

A piece with a regular, strong rhythm suited to marching. In Turkish music it has a broad repertoire stretching from mehter tunes to the 19th-century band marches, “Ceddin Deden” and the İstiklâl Marşı (national anthem).

Example pieces from the archive (8 in total)

Ceddin Deden · Kaptanzâde Ali Rıza Bey
Korkma, Sönmez · Ali Rıfat Çağatay
Beyâtî Mehter · Zurnazen Daği Ahmet Çelebi
Bûselik Mehter · Zurnazen İbrâhim Ağa
Gâfil Ne Bilir · Muallim İsmail Hakkı Bey

March 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 (8 in total)

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