A Summary Catalogue of the Turkish Makams – Eugenia Popescu-Judetz

A Summary Catalogue of the Turkish Makams – Eugenia Popescu-Judetz............ 30 TL
ISBN 978-9944-396-69-1, 16 x 23,5 cm, 164 s., 80 g., 1. Hamur , karton kapak
Barkod: 9789944396691
(Kitabın dili İngilizce’dir.)

Türk musikisi üzerine yaptığı çalışmalarla tanınan Eugenia Popescu-Judetz, bu çalışmasında, on beşinci yüzyıldan on dokuzuncu yüzyıla kadar önemli 23 el yazmasını inceleyerek, bu kaynaklarda geçen makamların geniş bir katalogunu hazırlamıştır.

For over three decades I had the opportunity to research on Ottoman
musical writings in the Turkish libraries and to consult private
collections. Concurrently, I was able to study Ottoman musical
manuscripts kept in libraries outside Turkey. Along those years of
research I carried out persistent investigations that gave me access
to a large number of Ottoman materials ranging from the fifteenth
century to the end of the nineteenth century. As a result of
examining numerous musical manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish literature I
discerned the commonplace of themes in the majority of writings and
evaluated their structure at formal and generative level. Moreover, I
was able to ascertain the significant purport of certain sources over
others and to compare several versions of the texts.
The idea of this catalogue evolved gradually in my mind from the
perception that an explicit presentation of the makams would
constitute a valuable reference both for evaluating the historical
process of creating and performing music, as well as for establishing
the inventory of modal categories and their taxonomic relations. As
time passed, I was able to determine the development of a genuine
Turkish concept in works that provided descriptive and analytical
matter, and to detect through manuscript lines the significance of the
process involving the semantics of the practice of music at different
periods.
The present book is mainly focused upon the practical theory of the
makams reflected in the production and performance of the melodic
scales the way they are described in Ottoman manuscripts.

Eugenia Popescu-Judetz