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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1very primitive kind of music, and do not fail to secure a pair or two of such rustic musicians for their festivities.
3The intelligent observer will at once notice that what these people call music is nothing but an up-and-down run on the scale, generally one of the numerous minor scales, interrupted by an occasional shake, here and there. The educated conservatives, and in fact the majority of the inhabitants of Turkey, enjoy and cultivate the better kind of so-called "à la turca" music. The well-balanced symmetrical construction of pieces of this class, their strict forms, and the technique required for their performance, secure them a right to consideration here.
5This kind of compositions may be called the classical "à la turca" music. The instruments used in their performance must possess the property of producing all the scale steps and the accidentals with perfect correctness. Tempering is not needed in it, as no harmony is used. All is played or sung in unison. The stringed instruments used in the performance of such music are the Keman, Saz, Santour, Kanoun and Oud; which, in English are respectively, the violin, the tambourine, the harp, the psaltery, the lute and the flute.
7The original instruments are the Nay and the Girift, both manufactured, generally, by the man who uses them. The rhythm is marked by the beats of the tambourine and a pair of small kettle-drums or a jingle-like side-drum made of terra cotta.
9As there is no school or organization for imparting musical knowledge, even professionals are self-taught musicians. This is true not only in regard to technique but also in regard to theory. Several efforts have been made to construct systems of notation adapted to represent all the possible intricacies of this Oriental music. The European system of notation, it is claimed, does not satisfactorily express it all.
11The favorite mode of keys for the Orientals are the minor keys, with their innumerable varieties. There is
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