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Mersiye (elegy)

Mersiye

A poem written in mourning and praise of someone who has died, and a work composed on such a poem. In religious music, the mersiyes sung in the tekkes during the month of Muharram, especially for Hz. Hüseyin and the martyrs of Karbala, hold an important place.

Example pieces from the archive (2 in total)

Ey Padişeh-i Saltanat · Rif'at Bey
Ehl-i Aşkâ Bir Belâ Zindânıdır · Anonim

Mersiye (elegy) 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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