Pitch and interval

Neva

The main pitch a pentachord (31 commas) above Rast; written as D in Western notation. It is the güçlü (dominant) pitch of many makams such as Rast, Uşşak, Hicaz and Nihavend.

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Example pieces from the archive (16 in total)

Nevâ Peşrev · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey
Ey Gonce-Dehen Âh-i Seherden · Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi
Nevâ Sazsemâîsi · Dimitri Kantemiroğlu
Ey Gülbün-i Iyş · Buhûrîzâde Mustafa Itrî
Bezme Gel Ben Zârı · Ahmet Avni Konuk

The Nevâ 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 (16 in total)

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