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Zeybek

A folk dance of Western Anatolia, usually danced in slow nine-beat aksak usuls (9/4, 9/8), and the melody of this dance. There are also examples composed as instrumental pieces, such as Tanbûrî Cemil Bey's Nikrîz zeybeks.

Example pieces from the archive (3 in total)

Nikrîz Zeybek (No 2) · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey
Sarı Zeybek · Tamburacı Osman Pehlivan
Nikrîz Zeybek (No 1) · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey

Zeybek works in the sheet music archive

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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 (3 in total)

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