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Usul

Tek Vuruş

A small usul of 11 beats; İsmail Hakkı Özkan gives it in 11/8 in beat groups of 5+6: a düm and a tek of two beats, a tek of one beat; then a düm of two beats and two teks. Ekrem Karadeniz gives a different 19-beat pattern under the same name.

Related: Tek Vuruş metronomeKüçük usul (small usul)

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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.

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Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, “Usul” maddesi; İ. H. Özkan (Muhammed Aydın, Türk Müziği Edvarları ve Nazariyat Kitaplarında Usûl Anlayışı (Marmara Üniv. yüksek lisans tezi, 2019), s. 124)