Pitch and interval

Zirgüle

An in-between pitch 5 commas above Rast (G küçük mücenneb sharp). It appears in low-register forms of the Hicaz scale and in makam names such as Zirgüleli Hicaz; the octave above it is called Şehnaz.

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N'olsun Bu Kadar Âh Ü Figan · Hanende Ali Bey
Başladı Meclisde Mutrıb · Ahmet Avni Konuk

The Hicaz-Zirgüle 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 (2 in total)

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