Bates, Eliot - Music in Turkey

Music in Turkey places the diverse sounds of the country (and the Middle East at large) in their social contexts.

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CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
CD Track List
Chapter 1: Anatolian Rural Musics and Instruments
1.1: Rural song forms: turku and uzun hava
1.2: Asik poetry and poets
1.3: Alevi sacred/secular music
1.4: Saz-family instruments
1.5: Saz making
1.6: Kemence and Karadeniz folk song
1.7: Dance music and drumming: Oyun havasi and the aski-davul
1.8: Conclusion: rural music in urban Turkey
Chapter 2: Urban Musics and Instruments
2.1: History of urban art music until 1950
2.2: Oud
2.3: Contexts 1: music institutes and concert halls
2.4: Sarki and fasil: song and suite forms
2.5: Tanbur
2.6: Instrumental art music composition
2.7: Roman oyun havasi
2.9: Contexts 2: restaurant and meyhane music
2.9: Klasik kemence (lyra politiki)
2.10: Conclusion
Chapter 3: Musical Features: Rhythm, Melody, and Form
3.1: Usul, beat structures, and meter
3.2: Asymmetrical beat structures and the feel of aksak
3.3: Rhythms made within aksak beat

Series	Global Music