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| | Encyclopedia: Turkish music |
 | | Turkish music includes the music of modern Turkey, together with related musics in neighbouring regions that once lay within the former Ottoman Empire, and closely related ethnic variants in Central Asia stretching as far as the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. |
 | | Turkish musical elements, notably in instrumentation, asymmetrical rhythmic metres, the scale system known as makam (http://www.turkishmusic.org/cgi-bin/d?what_is_a_maqam.html), and melodic style play a part in the music of Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, to mention Southeastern Europe alone. |
 | | When "Turkish" music was scored for orchestra, it normally used extra percussion instruments not otherwise found in orchestras of the Classical period: typically, the bass drum, the triangle, and cymbals. |
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