Form

Murabba

A poetic form made of four-line stanzas, and a work composed to this form. Most beste pieces of the classical fasıl are set to a murabba lyric.

Example pieces from the archive (5 in total)

Gönül O Turra · Yahya Nazım Efendi
Hasret-i Rûyinle Giryân · Gevrekzâde Mustafa Ağa
Vakt-i Subh Oldu · Hafız Post
Piyâleler ki O Ruhsâr-i Âl'e · Buhûrîzâde Mustafa Itrî
Zeyn Eden Bağ-i Cihânı · Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi

Murabba 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 (5 in total)

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