Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire

by Walter Feldman

Between 1600 and 1750 Ottoman Turkish music differentiated itself from an older Persianate art music and developed the genres antecedent to modern Turkish art music. Based on a translation of Demetrius Cantemir's seminal "Book of the Science of Music" from the early eighteenth century, this work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography. These present a synthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004531254
• ISBN13: 9789004531253
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"