You want to learn the ney, you want to produce sound—but you're struggling. That’s perfectly normal. Now let’s talk in detail: every musical instrument, of course, has its own challenges…
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Ney
Manyasizâde Refik Bey was born in 1854. He was a civil law professor at the Imperial School of Law (Mekteb-i Hukuk-ı Şahane / Istanbul University Faculty of Law) and...
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Composers
Buselik is a makam in Turkish classical music, classified among the simple modes, and it is also the name of a pitch. In Western music theory, it corresponds to the...
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Simple Makams, Makams
Samih Rifat was born in 1875 in Istanbul. He received private education and began his civil service career at the Istanbul Municipality. At the same time, he worked as a journalist…
It is one of the oldest makams in Turkish classical music and was formerly known as Babatâhir. Abdülbâki Nâsır Dede divided it into two forms: “Tâhir-i Kebîr” and “Tâhir-i Sagīr”…
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Simple Makams, Makams
Rüştü Şardağ was born in 1915 in Aleppo, where his father, Mehmet Atıf Bey, was serving as a regimental clerk. He was originally from Elbistan…