Pitch and interval

Yegah

The pitch a tetrachord (22 commas) below Rast; written as D in Western notation. It is an octave below Neva and is the karar (tonic) of makams such as Yegah and Ferahfeza.

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Example pieces from the archive (18 in total)

A Benim Gözüm Nûru · Dellâlzâde İsmâil Efendi
Bâis Oldu Çeşm-i Mestin · Bolahenk Nuri Bey
Benim Âfet-i Cihânım · Dellâlzâde İsmâil Efendi
Cevr-i Peyderpeyle · Ahmet Avni Konuk
Dü Çeşmim Hûn ile Doldu · Şevkî Bey

The Yegâh 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.

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Example pieces from the archive (18 in total)

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