Mixing Musics
Mixing Musics

Author: Maureen Jackson

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 080478566X

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This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular" Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores areas often left out of those histories of the region that focus primarily on Jewish communities in isolation, political events and actors, or nationalizing narratives. Maureen Jackson foregrounds artistic interactivity, detailing the life-stories of musicians and their musical activities. Her book amply demonstrates the integration of Jewish musicians into a larger art world and traces continuities and ruptures in a nation-building era. Among its richly researched themes, the book explores the synagogue as a multifunctional venue within broader urban space; girls, women, and gender issues in an all-male performance practice; new technologies and oral transmission; and Ottoman musical reconstructions within Jewish life and cultural politics in Turkey today.

Music of the Ottoman Court
Music of the Ottoman Court

Author: Walter Feldman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 9004531262

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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 picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music. A detailed comparison of items in the notated Collections of Cantemir and of Bobowski—from fifty years earlier—together with relevant treatises, reveal key aspects of modality, melodic progression and rhythmic structures.

Picturing History at the Ottoman Court
Picturing History at the Ottoman Court

Author: Emine Fetvacı

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0253006783

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Traces the simultaneous crafting of political power, the codification of a historical record, and the unfolding of cultural change

The Singing Turk
The Singing Turk

Author: Larry Wolff

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0804799652

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While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European–Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.

From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes

Author: Walter Feldman

Publisher:

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474491860

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A pioneering study that illuminates the connection of music, poetry, mystical praxis and social history underlying the ceremony of the Mevlevi Dervishes Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, whose life and mystical poetry provided the inspiration for the Mevlevi Sufi order, is one of the world's best-known poets, yet the centuries-long musical tradition cultivated by the Mevleviye remains much less known. In this deeply researched book, renowned scholar Walter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin - the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes. Key Features  An in-depth historical exploration of the musical tradition linked to the Mevlevi ('Whirling') Dervishes and the spiritual legacy of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, one of Islam's greatest mystical poets  An accessible introduction to the relationship between music and performative elements of Sufi practice codified in the Mevlevi ceremony of sema  A unique presentation of the biographies of the principal Mevlevi musicians, showing both their creation of the music of the mukabele and their key role in the development of Ottoman court music  Detailed analysis of excerpts from the Mevlevi musical repertory and the aesthetics of Mevlevi compositional practices  29 notated musical examples, with additional examples freely available on the Aga Khan University website www.akdn.org/akmp/FromRumi Walter Feldman is a leading scholar of both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. His major publications include Klezmer: Music, History and Memory (2016) and Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (1996).

Morality Tales
Morality Tales

Author: Leslie Peirce

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-06-16

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 0520228928

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Leslie Peirce uses the experience of a village in 16th century Anatolia as a lens to reinterpret major themes in the history of the Ottoman Empire: the conflict between the expanding Ottoman and declining Persian empires, the place of women in Ottoman society, and the clash between Sunni and Shi'a Islam.

Melancholic Modalities
Melancholic Modalities

Author: Denise Gill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0190495014

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Denise Gill analyzes how the melancholies intentionally cultivated by Turkish classical musicians, typically dismissed as the remnants of Ottoman nostalgia, emerge as reparative, pleasurable, and spiritually redeeming. Melancholic Modalities intervenes in debates about music and affect, and offers new, innovative methodologies of rhizomatic analysis and bi-aurality for researchers.