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	Traditional Turkish music
		The notated repertoire of Turkish music consits of compositions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		Musical instruments used in shadow plays may be divided into two groups: the ones which appear on the curtain and those used behind the curtain.
		Hence, the musical taste of the periphery is introduced to the Ottoman capital, to the central culture.
	www.karagoz.net /english/turkish_music.htm (540 words)

	Turkish Embassy.org - Republic of Turkey
		When describing Turkish music today it is generally said that Ottoman composers availed themselves of the rich musical heritage found in the cultural centers of the Abbasid and the Timurogullari, where Turkish, Araband Iranian musicians performed and created music known as Ottoman court music.
		Intended reforms in the field of music during the Republican period led to debates on the subjects of European, Turkish, polyphonic and monophonic music.
		In 1826, Sultan Mahmut II attempted to modernize the Turkish Army and organize a military band similar to the bands of western armies, and in 1828 the Imperial Band was founded.
	www.turkishembassy.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=113 (0 words)

	ARASINDA Turkish Folk Music Group, Hungary, Balkanfolk
		At the same time, in the course of their journeys throughout Turkey they got acquainted with the musical world which they have taken as basis of the pieces of music and adaptations the current group performs.
		Playing music and singing in their friends' company both in Turkey and in the Turkish community living in Hungary helped them a lot in making themselves familiar with the traditional style.
		Music is played on Turkish, Balkan and modern musical instruments such az saz baglama, ud, kaval, zurna, zummara, derbuka, bass guitar, guitar, gadulka kemence.
	www.balkanfolk.com /catalogue_ARASINDA__Turkish_Folk_Music_Group (0 words)

	Turkish Folk Music
		Turkish Folk/Local Music are forms of music created by people settled in one particular location, played or recited with great affection, which have become the joint creation of the people of the area in question, and which have been passed down and kept alive down to the present day.
		Such music bears the traces of local cultures, and the names of the composers are generally unknown.
		Turkish folk music has combined the distinct cultural values of all those civilisations which have lived in Anatolia and the Ottoman territories in Europe.
	exoticmusicshop.com /sf-articles-of-Turkish_Folk_Music-tp-12_13.htm (341 words)

	Munir Nurettin Beken
		The Art of the Turkish Ud Münir Nurettin Beken is one of the founding members of the State Turkish Music Ensemble and the leading ud performer of his generation in Turkey.
		Just as classical Turkish music (Ottoman court music) is distinct from neighboring musics in Arab countries and Persia, the Turkish ud is distinct from other Middle Eastern uds by the way it is made, its style of playing, and in recent decades, by compositions for it.
		Turkish uds vary in construction from one luthier to another, but in general are relatively shallower from the soundboard to the back than are other Middle Eastern ones.
	www.turkishhan.org /Munir.htm (524 words)

	Tarkan DeLuxe: Turkish Music and Artists (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Turkish music has a multitude of facets, all of which reflect the historical cultural diversity of the country.
		The popularity of the Turkish band was such, that in about 1800, even piano-fortes were equipped with a so-called 'Janissary feature' which sought to reproduce the Ottoman bells and cymbals, and, by heating a clapper on the sound board, the sound of the bass drum was imitated.
		Sufi music tends to be a mix of instrumental performances and settings of the Koran and mystical poetry, the most famous of which is the music and dances of the Sufi order of the Mevlevi.
	tarkandeluxe.blogspot.com /2004/05/turkish-music-and-artists.html (6356 words)

	Turkish Music: Tulumba.com
		46 classical Turkish music songs spanning four centuries are flawlessly performed by the Istanbul Classical Turkish Music Orchestra conducted by Nevzat Sumer.
		The fifth solo album of the Turkish Rock music star Kýraç was widely anticipated.
		Turkish music historians will remember her playing kemençe in Maxim Gazinosu, the top concert/entertainment center of the time.
	www.tulumba.com /icy_category.asp?cC=MUSIC (0 words)

	Traditional Music in Turkey
		The Turkish language had its origins in central Asia, and the move of Turkish people to modern Turkey is a relatively recent historical phenomenon.
		Various Turkish cultures continue to exist in the region from Anatolia to Western China, and the fine classical tradition of Uzbekistan is Turkish.
		Much of this is orchestral music, tied to various functions, and not of the highest interest to me. Aside from that, however, Ottoman music is of definite historical interest, with developments paralleling many of those for European music.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/turkish.html (693 words)

	Turkish Music & Turkish Belly Dance Music Shop.
		It is seldom that a particular kind of music conjures the same image in the minds of all listeners.
		Indeed, the prime purpose of this is ancient musical form has always been to provide the mood and rhythm for dancing - but a distinctly unique and always fascinating kind of dancing.
		Fasil is a sort of light classical music, dominated by the clarinet, violin, kanun, darbuka, ud and cumbus..
	exoticmusicshop.com /sf-index-of-Turkish_Music_Shop-cp-6.htm (251 words)

	Turkish Music & Music in Turkey
		Turkish music is one of the world's great undiscovered artistic treasures.
		From the mystical flute music of the whirling dervishes through Ottoman classical court compositions, Anatolian folk tunes and the driving rhythm of the bellydance, to the latest multi-track techno-pop, Turkey is alive with sound.
		The slow, mournful, mystical music of the whirling dervishes is completely appropriate to the gravity of the Sufi sema (religious ceremony) at which it is performed.
	www.turkeytravelplanner.com /special/music/index.html (401 words)

	What Are Makams?
		While Turkish classical music went through a parallel period of early development with the Arabs, the high point in the development of the Turkish classical style is during the Ottoman Empire period from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
		In Turkish makams, the octave is not divided equally, but proportionally using whole-tones, half-tones, quarter-tones and smaller tones which approximate an eighth-tone.
		In Turkish classical music, whole-tones and half-tones are approximately the same size as Western whole-tones and half-tones, and function the same way within the scale.
	www.hinesmusic.com /What_Are_Makams.html (887 words)

	Turkish Classical Music
		The form of music today generally known as Türk Sanat Müziği, or Ottoman Classical Music, matured, developed in form and aesthetics and came to assume the identity of a form of classical music in parallel to the establishment, growth and increasing strength of the Ottoman state itself.
		Ottoman music was influenced by other musical cultures as new nations became absorbed into the empire, giving and receiving various elements.
		The ‘Şarkı’ in Turkish literature is a form that emerged under the influence of the folk song.
	www.oud.gr /music_turkey.htm (964 words)

	Turkish Music Hits German Cinemas \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 17.06.2005
		Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Alexander Hacke on his musical search in IstanbulKitted out with a laptop and hi-tech equipment, the two men made their way through the loud, hectic and hot city in order to portray the musicians that lend Istanbul its musical identity.
		He was one of the first to play Turkish music on electrically amplified instruments, to cover the Beatles and the Stones, and to inaugurate the Beat era in Turkey.
		With this kind of Western influence, he faced rejection in the Turkish Republic, but for the next generation, he had opened the door to a new understanding of music.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1619192,00.html (946 words)

	Turkish Festival \| Washington DC (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kardelen Turkish Dance Ensemble is a group of dancers dedicated to promoting the culture of Turkey through dances the dances from the region.
		Main purposes of the group are to keep Turkish Folk Music alive, to practice and to educate.
		The troupe, as a whole, serves for the purpose of promoting and broadening the awareness of Turkish culture in the U.S. through performances of various Turkish folk dances; whereas, for the individual’s standpoint, it is a friendly and social environment where learning and teaching of Turkish folk dances are made possible through voluntary work.
	www.turkishfestival.org /dance.html (905 words)

	Reviews of new Turkish Progressive music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But it gives also some importance to Turkish music, because the group considers Turkish music as having a very alive tradition with a cintinual authentic historical practice, while European music suffered from interpreting lost music which is written down and not in a way that this music reflects how it should be interpreted.
		The music is entirely based upon Turkish folkrock, melodies and lyrics while the rhythms are a combination of Western rock rhythms with additional traditional Turkish beats in 5/8, 7/8 or 9/8.
		The music is world vision orientated with on one hand the Turkish orientation (read orient-ation), on the other hand a warm modern fusion pop.
	psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com /Turkprogreview2.html (4097 words)

	Musical instruments of Turkey - All About Turkey
		Because of its strong sound it is generally played in the open air, on occasions such as village weddings, sending off the boys to military service, sport encounters, folk dances and similar ceremonial events.
		Because of the difficulty of its intonation and its high sound level, it is not used in musical groups.
		Sipsi which is a Turkish folk instrument of the wind type is made from bone, wood or reed.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /muzikalet.htm (2100 words)

	Golden Horn Records :: Derya Turkan & Murat Aydemir - Ahenk, Turkish Classical Music
		Their incredible talent for performing classical forms of Turkish Music, as well as the improvisation of different Turkish Music modes between these compositions has made this album one of the most important recordings made in the last decade.
		He was raised in a musical family, and began to play the violin when he was seven years old.
		Without making any changes to the characteristics of Classical Turkish Music, and remaining honest to the traditional structure of Turkish music, he developed an amazing style which proved his virtuousity both in his improvisations and compositions.
	www.goldenhorn.com /display.php4?content=records&page=ghp006.html (1382 words)

	Turkish Psychedelic
		It is very important to underline the influence of Shadows because the missing essence which held the rock music from being popular in the first years was the problem of language.
		As Turkish did not have any roots in relation to English it was really very hard to understand what rock'n'roll was all about.
		Psychedelia end underground music brought a new dimension to Turkish listeners; while the rest of the nation were happy with its oriental overtones, the Turkish music fans found that it was what they felt inside really!
	www.onstagerecords.com /Turkish_psych/turkish_psychedelic.htm (1136 words)

	Suleyman Erguner -- experimentation in mystical Islamic music - Turkish Daily News Oct 10, 1997
		He comes from a family of musicians, ney players, and they are among the few who maintained the mystical music tradition during the recent periods in Turkish history when such music was frowned upon and the dervish tekkes (places of Sufi worship) outlawed.
		Apart from his family's musical achievements, the western fascination with all things exotic and all things Sufi has helped him to build a name in the west and as a result of that success, his reputation in Turkey has also grown.
		He graduated from the ITU music conservatory in 1979, and in 1988 was appointed assistant professor of music there.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=4527 (1739 words)

	Turkish Words and Music -- Tarkan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After he'd performed his then-latest hit single and was exiting 'stage left', the MC delayed him and asked him to say a few words for the camera.
		For that act of defiance, he was officially stripped of Turkish citizenship in April 1999 -- and was publicly disgraced.
		His Euro-fans say his music is the perfect mixture of Western originality and Turkish romanticism.
	members.tripod.com /jimmasters3/turkish-words-and-music--tarkan.html (789 words)

	Turkish Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a collection of Turkish music from a wide Turkish geography expanding from Uighur to Balkans.
		I love their music, all are instrumentals of many of the famous songs from turkish artists.
		Anyways, a few months ago on a Turkish forum I had read an article about the mathematical modeling of Turkish which was pretty cool actually, all the sentence structure expressed in one regular expression, although I had thought there were some little changes needed to be made to make it work better...
	www.crisscross.com /forum/Turkish_Music/m_250598/tm.htm (1557 words)

	A short history of polyphonic music in Turkey
		Contemporary Turkish music is rooted in traditional Turkish music, which, in turn, takes form after the Shamanistic traditions of Central Asia as well as those of the lands Turks travelled through on their way to Anatolia.
		Folk Music used the lyrics of folk literature and that was the music of the common folk as enjoyed by the people.
		Polyphony finally entered Turkey with light music such as operettas, tangos and kantos in the Nineteenth Century; for it to become acceptable in the more serious circles with polyphonic Turkish music works took until the first quarter of the Twentieth.
	sanat.bilkent.edu.tr /interactive.m2.org/Music/evin2.html (1998 words)

	Turkish Music, Turkish Food, Evil Eye Jewelry, Movies, Grocery Shopping & Books - Tulumba.com
		In Turkish kilims cotton is often used for the white areas and small details may be brocaded.
		The music seems to emanate from her body, as sometimes she emphasizes the rhythm, sometimes the melody of the song.
		Bellydance is often performed barefoot, now thought by many to signify the intimate and ancient physical connection between the dancer, the music, and Mother Earth, although historically, most dancers were barefoot because they could not afford shoes.
	www.tulumba.com /default.asp?tRef=HDR8755 (0 words)

	Classical Turkish Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This fascinating type of music originated as the product of the Ottoman Civilization, it also is a combination of many different styles of music over hundreds of years.
		The music resembles that of other countries because back in its day many people lived under the Ottoman Empire.
		Secular music is also divided into two parts consisting of instrumental and music put into words.
	www.k12.de.us /talley/turkey/music.htm (393 words)

	bellydance CD: Music of the turkish gypsiesor the tsjingui
		Gypsies specialized in in their own distinct musical domain as well as performing various Turkish music genres.
		Some forms of Turkish entertainment music such as the tavsanca and kocekce were designed to accompany turkish folk dances.
		In this form of music, vocal and non-vocal musical pieces have been used as elements of dancing.
	www.belly-dance.org /music-of-the-tsingui.html (564 words)

	Latif Bolat, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		A teacher at the Mendocino Middle Eastern Music camp and Honolulu Music And Dance Camp, Bolat is the director of the Latif Bolat Turkish Music Ensemble of San F...
		A teacher at the Mendocino Middle Eastern Music camp and Honolulu Music And Dance Camp, Bolat is the director of the Latif Bolat Turkish Music Ensemble of San Francisco and the musical director of the Mevlevi Association Of America, a Sufi organization the produces public performances of dance and Turkish classical music.
		Bolat, who holds a degree in folklore and music from the University of Ankara, was active in the music of Turkey before emigrating to the United States.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11656/11656417.html (365 words)

	Turkish Progressive Music in the sixties and seventies
		Turkish progressive/psychedelic music mostly blends perfectly traditional (folk) tunes with Western rock instruments.
		Of all the musical and sub-cultural scenes that happened in 60's, psychedelia was the most effective one in Turkey.
		Psychedelia end underground music brought a new dimension to Turkish listeners; while the rest of the nation were happy with its oriental overtones, the Turkish music fans found that it was what they felt inside really! So psychedelia influence was at a much different scope than it had on other countries.
	psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com /TurkishProgressive.html (1731 words)

	Archive of World Music - Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Archive of World Music, a collection of the Loeb Music Library, was established in 1976 by Professor John Ward and in 1992, with the appointment of Kay Kaufman Shelemay as Harvard's first senior professor of ethnomusicology, moved to the Loeb Music Library to become one of its special collections.
		It is devoted to the acquisition of archival field recordings of musics world-wide as well as to commercial sound recordings, videos, and DVDs of ethnomusicological interest.
		The Archive of World Music is a closed-stack, non-circulating collection whose materials are available for use during the normal business Hours of the Loeb Music Library.
	hcl.harvard.edu /libraries/loebmusic/collections/archive.html (1311 words)

	Turkish Music and Voice Library
		Kurdish, Azeri and Iranian Music from IranOnline and music from Israel.
		Hungarian and Turkish are in the same language family.
		If you are seriously interested in worldwide music visit worldwide music resources.
	www.turkishmusic.org (0 words)

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