Usul
Nim Berefşan
A large sixteen-beat usul that is half of the Berefşan usul; it consists of a semai, a Türk aksağı and two sofyans. It was used in peşrev, beste and ilahi; of its examples only Şerif's bayati peşrev has survived to the present day.
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Usul
A large sixteen-beat usul that is half of the Berefşan usul; it consists of a semai, a Türk aksağı and two sofyans. It was used in peşrev, beste and ilahi; of its examples only Şerif's bayati peşrev has survived to the present day.
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.
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Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, “Nîm-berefşan” maddesi