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Relationships between prosodic and musical meters in the beste form of classical Turkish music

Relationships between prosodic and musical meters in the beste form of classical Turkish music
Relationships between prosodic and musical meters in the beste form of classical Turkish music
Classical Turkish music is essentially vocal in nature, and a large portion of its lyrics is taken from Ottoman dîvân literature. The primary prosodic meter used in dîvân is arûz, whereas the musical meter utilized in classical Turkish music is usûl. This study investigates the relationships between the large rhythmic patterns (usûl ) and the prosodic meters (arûz) utilized in the beste formof classical Turkishmusic. In an analysis of 466 beste, a relationship was found between each usûl and arûz meter, but an even stronger concordance was discovered between each usûl and a class of arûz patterns called bahir. Thus, this research establishes that, rather than thinking in terms of an arûz–usûl relationship, it is more appropriate to emphasize a bahir–usûl relationship within the beste form. The results of this study confirm the existence of this relationship, which was hypothesized by Tanrikorur to exist in the beste form (1990:6).
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Bektas, T.
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Bektas, T.
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Bektas, T. (2005) Relationships between prosodic and musical meters in the beste form of classical Turkish music. Asian Music, 36 (1), 1-26. (doi:10.1353/amu.2005.0003).

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Classical Turkish music is essentially vocal in nature, and a large portion of its lyrics is taken from Ottoman dîvân literature. The primary prosodic meter used in dîvân is arûz, whereas the musical meter utilized in classical Turkish music is usûl. This study investigates the relationships between the large rhythmic patterns (usûl ) and the prosodic meters (arûz) utilized in the beste formof classical Turkishmusic. In an analysis of 466 beste, a relationship was found between each usûl and arûz meter, but an even stronger concordance was discovered between each usûl and a class of arûz patterns called bahir. Thus, this research establishes that, rather than thinking in terms of an arûz–usûl relationship, it is more appropriate to emphasize a bahir–usûl relationship within the beste form. The results of this study confirm the existence of this relationship, which was hypothesized by Tanrikorur to exist in the beste form (1990:6).

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Published date: 2005
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 340959
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340959
ISSN: 0044-9202
PURE UUID: e1ef0bcf-0935-41f7-a633-387fef900677
ORCID for T. Bektas: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0634-144X

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