Pitch and interval

Muhayyer

The pitch an octave above Dügah; written as high A in Western notation. The melodic path (seyir) of the makams Muhayyer and Muhayyerkürdi starts from this pitch.

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Example pieces from the archive (26 in total)

Muhayyer Sazsemâîsi · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey
Muhayyer Peşrev · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey
Muhayyer Peşrev · Dimitri Kantemiroğlu
Ağlamaktan Dideden · Rif'at Bey
Ben Sana Aşık Değilim · Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi

The Muhayyer 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 (26 in total)

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