Hamparsum notation

Can anyone show me what Hamparsum notation looks like? I've found
references to it in Turkish music, but I haven't found any
explanation of it.

There are some examples in these sites:

www.turkmusikisi.com/ahmetgul
http://mitglied.lycos.de/tulgan/

Also, there is a study group called "Hamparsum
Limonciyan Study Group" (in construction). You can
visit http://musicalconfrontations.com or can write to
the list: limonciyanstudies@musicalconfrontations.com

M. Kemal Karaosmanoglu

--- lev36 <lev@heartistry.com> wrote:
> Can anyone show me what Hamparsum notation looks
> like? I've found
> references to it in Turkish music, but I haven't
> found any
> explanation of it.
>
>

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--- In tuning@y..., "lev36" <lev@h...> wrote:
> Can anyone show me what Hamparsum notation looks like? I've found
> references to it in Turkish music, but I haven't found any
> explanation of it.

Hamparsum Limonciyan is a Turkish composer (of Armenian origin) who
produced very powerful and good pieces (Bayâti Araban takım,
Bestenigâr Beste to name but a few).

By the order of Sultan Selim III, he developped an alphabetical
notation depending on an already existing one, using basically the
letters of Armenian alphabet and some symbols for octave shifts,
sharps (not flats), rhythm etc.

His notation system became very popular, so that, almost the same
amount of scores with those in Italian notation was written in
Hamparsum.

A true type font that enables you write Hamparsum scores has been
uploaded to </tuning/files/Hamparsum>.

Ertugrul