More Turkish Music.

http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/

This site was awarded the Golden Spider Award in 2007.
Lots more to listen to for free.

In case members of the list are having difficulty navigating the labyrinthine structure of that site, here is a direct link to some gems of Turkish maqam music:

http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/list_songs.php?type=1

Oz.

On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:12 AM, robert thomas martin wrote:

> http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/
>
> This site was awarded the Golden Spider Award in 2007.
> Lots more to listen to for free.
>

Wow...great site...thanks Ozan...I love the internet!

This track struck me as particularly beautiful:

http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/listen.php?id=432

-AKJ

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:
>
> In case members of the list are having difficulty navigating the
> labyrinthine structure of that site, here is a direct link to some
> gems of Turkish maqam music:
>
> http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/list_songs.php?type=1
>
> Oz.
>
> On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:12 AM, robert thomas martin wrote:
>
> > http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/
> >
> > This site was awarded the Golden Spider Award in 2007.
> > Lots more to listen to for free.
> >
>

Hey Aaron,

I am glad you enjoyed the piece. Melodies are said to be inspired from
Rast Kar-i Natik of Dede Effendi. In case you don't know. Kar-ı Natik
is a form of composition that exposes every significant maqam in
sequence and describes the executed maqam with a poetic stanza. My
friend and colleague Kemal Karaosmanoglu has a site that gives the
lyrics and notation:

http://www.musiki.org/rast_kar.htm

Bold lyrics are, as you might guess, the names of maqams.

Oz.

On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:

>
> Wow...great site...thanks Ozan...I love the internet!
>
> This track struck me as particularly beautiful:
>
> http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/listen.php?id=432
>
> -AKJ
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:
>>
>> In case members of the list are having difficulty navigating the
>> labyrinthine structure of that site, here is a direct link to some
>> gems of Turkish maqam music:
>>
>> http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/list_songs.php?type=1
>>
>> Oz.
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:12 AM, robert thomas martin wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/
>>>
>>> This site was awarded the Golden Spider Award in 2007.
>>> Lots more to listen to for free.
>>>
>>

Ozan Yarman wrote:
> Hey Aaron,
>
> I am glad you enjoyed the piece. Melodies are said to be inspired from > Rast Kar-i Natik of Dede Effendi. In case you don't know. Kar-ı Natik > is a form of composition that exposes every significant maqam in > sequence and describes the executed maqam with a poetic stanza. My > friend and colleague Kemal Karaosmanoglu has a site that gives the > lyrics and notation:
>
> http://www.musiki.org/rast_kar.htm

I remember finding that site years ago. It had a few MP3s (including a recording of Dede Efendi's "Yine bir gülnihal"), TIFF scores and MIDI sequences, but they've reorganized everything, and I can't find the files. Except I'm far from fluent in Turkish, so I probably don't know where to look.

I'm just now discovering Dede Efendi. ~D.