An accepted paper to www.muscon2.itu.edu.tr

PRIMARY NATIVE TURKISH SOFTWARE FOR REPRESENTING TURKISH MAQAM MUSIC
ON THE COMPUTER

Turkish Maqam music, which ought to be considered as a deep-rooted
sycamore of our national culture by virtue of such quotidian styles as
Classical, Art and Folk, is relatively only very recently being
represented through computer software geared towards the specificities
of this genre compared to analogues abroad. Among the first native
enterprises in this field are “Mus2” – developed in 1988 by M.
Kemal Karaosmanoğlu (whilst lacking an interface) and completed as a
Data-Soft product as of September 2010 subsequent to having been
revamped through Utku Uzmen’s “Nihavent (beta)” initiative;
“Türk Musikisi Eserleri” (Turkish Music Works) that has been
entered into the market in 1996 by US Bilişim Ltd.; the free
“Nota” developed in 2001 by Ömer Tulgan; and the free “Notist”
– which has been introduced the same year by M. Uğur Keçecioğlu as
a rough draft that has flourished soon into a comprehensive program.
In what follows, we can recount
“İcraAnalizi” (PerformanceAnalyzer) and
“AralıkÖlçer” (IntervalComputer) developed during early 2000
once again by Karaosmanoğlu to assess the audio recording measurements
collected under the “Project on the Construction of a Piano Capable
of Sounding the Pitches of Turkish Maqam music” within Yıldız
Technical University Art and Design Faculty; as well as “Sanal
Kanun” (Virtual Qanun) and “Usul-Velvele Editörü” (Rhythmic
Pattern – Filled Beats Editor) by Uğur Keçecioğlu under progress
onward since 2007 although neither has yet reached finalization. There
exist today a cornucopia of music analysis and audio output
applications – whether large or small – coded by these two veteran
programmers. In like manner, Barış Bozkurt from İYTE (İzmir High
Technology Institute) has programmed an authentic maqam-based signal
processing application this year under the “Project on Automatic
Notation of Classical Turkish Music Recordings and Automatic Maqam
Recognition” funded by TÜBITAK (Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey). An entry-level market-oriented version of
the “Mus2” software cited above named “Mus2okur (Mus2reader) –
Turkish Music Multimedia Encyclopedia” has been developed by Data-
Soft company in 2008 with KOSGEB (Endorsing and Expanding Small and
Medium Sized Businesses) R&D funding and under the leadership of
Karaosmanoğlu. Soon thereafter, Utku Uzmen, the young programmer who
had been a member of the team that programmed “Mus2okur”,
independently coded “Nihavent (beta)” microtonal polyphonic score
editor and settled a deal in September 2010 with Data-Soft which, through Karaosmanoğlu’s partaking and contributions, finalized it
under the name of “Mus2”. Another young talent of ours, Halil
Kirazlı, is focusing for some time on a score transcription program
based on MusicXML called “Suzidil”… Turkish music programming has
long since surpassed the stage of adolescence. One can catch the
glimmer just over the horizon of novel software silhouttes that will
bring about the realistic and true-to-the-origins representation of
our music at international state-of-the-art technology heights.

Keywords: Maqam, Software, Program, Computer, Audio, Recording, Notation

Cordially,
Dr. Ozan Yarman
İDA Agency

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www.ozanyarman.com

Congratulations, Ozan! -Carl

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:
>
> PRIMARY NATIVE TURKISH SOFTWARE FOR REPRESENTING TURKISH MAQAM
> MUSIC ON THE COMPUTER
>

yes indeed!

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
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>
>
> Congratulations, Ozan! -Carl
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:
> >
> > PRIMARY NATIVE TURKISH SOFTWARE FOR REPRESENTING TURKISH MAQAM
> > MUSIC ON THE COMPUTER
> >

Thanks!

Oz.

✩ ✩ ✩
www.ozanyarman.com

On Sep 23, 2010, at 5:01 AM, Chris Vaisvil wrote:

> yes indeed!
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Carl Lumma <carl@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Congratulations, Ozan! -Carl
>>
>> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> PRIMARY NATIVE TURKISH SOFTWARE FOR REPRESENTING TURKISH MAQAM
>>> MUSIC ON THE COMPUTER
>>>
>
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This is a tuning I've never seen before, but please correct me if you
have....I'm calling it "dimension" in the meantime.

Here is the tuning:

Just:Actual(in cents)
#1 1 : 1
#2 9/8 : 196.1984
#3 6/5: 315.64128
#4 11/9 : 347.4048
#5 5/4: 386.3137 (extra unused tone/"mystery tone")
#6 4/3: 504.09373
#7 3/2: 701.955
#8 5/3: 891.959
#9 9/5: 1009.88476
#10 11/6: 1046.212378
2/1 (PERIOD)

Known modes

1,2,3,6,7,8,9 (1/4 comma mean-tone diatonic approximation, has two "semitones")

1.2.4,6,7,8,10(7TET-like spaced scale with mostly non-extended JI diatonic
intervals but also 7 or so very sharp 11-limit quasi-JI intervals giving it a
somewhat Arabic feel)

1,2,4,6,7,8,9 (Mix of properties from the above modes. Has one "semi-tone"
with almost completely non-extended JI diatonic intervals but a few 11-limit
ones due to the 11/9)

Now time for your input...
What do you think of the existing modes and what other good modes to you
think can be made (especially) using the 5/4?