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Raga (rāg /राग (Hindi), raga (Anglicised from rāgaḥ/रागः (Sanskrit)) or rāgam /ராகம் (Tamil)) are the melodic modes used in Indian classical music. "Raag" is the modern Hindi pronunciation used by Hindustani musicians; "Ragam" the Tamil form used by Karnatak Carnatic music musicians. A raga functions both as description and prescription. It describes a generalized form of melodic practice; it prescribes a set of rules for how to build a melody. It specifies rules for move ...

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• Raga - Footnotes

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The traditional music of Turkey is composed of two major traditions with distinct characteristics. The first one is Turkish folk music, characterized by the culture of Turkish-speaking rural communities of Anatolia, Balkans, and Middle East. While Turkish folk music contains some traces of the Central Asian Turkic cultures, it has also strongly influenced and been influenced by many other cultures in the region. The second one, on the other hand, is Turkish classical music, which is characterized by the culture of Ottoman elite and strongly influence ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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The traditional music of Turkey is composed of two major traditions with distinct characteristics. The first one is Turkish folk music, characterized by the culture of Turkish-speaking rural communities of Anatolia, Balkans, and Middle East. While Turkish folk music contains some traces of the Central Asian Turkic cultures, it has also strongly influenced and been influenced by many other cultures in the region. The second one, on the other hand, is Turkish classical music, which is characterized by the culture of Ottoman elite and strongly ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Arabesk, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Roma music:, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Maqam performance features a series characteristic pauses which separate and distinguish melodic passages within which, "the tonal-spatial aspect is more fully developed. In each new melodic passage, something musically new happens." Maqam - Phases and central tones. Each passage consists of one or more phases which are sections "played on one tone or within one tonal area," and may take from seven to forty seconds to articulate. For example, a tone level centered on g:

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Maqam, Maqam - Passages, Maqam - Phases and central tones, Maqam - Emotional content, Maqam - Ajnas, Maqam - Principal 9 maqamat by lower jins, Maqam - Source

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Main article: Anatolian rock Cem Karaca is the best known performer of Anatolian rock music. Karaca set the stage for politically-charged performers like Mogollar, Yeni Türkü, Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, Zen and Zülfü Livaneli. Livaneli was known for the mid-80s innovation of özgün, a guitar-based genre that combined mellow vocals with Arabesque music and rural melodies. ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Main article: Turkish pop music There is also a wide range of imported popular styles, including rock and roll, hip hop, heavy metal, tango and reggae. The biggest Turkish pop star of the 20th century was probably Sezen Aksu. Her popularity is credited with allowing Turkish pop to have gained ground from its humble beginnings in the early 50's-60's to the popular genre it is today. The biggest male pop stars in Turkey are probably Tarkan and Mustafa Sandal. Tarkan conquered not only Europe but also the entire world with ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Main article: Turkish folk music The folklore of Turkey is extremely diverse. Nevertheless, Turkish folk music or Türkü is dominantly marked by a single musical instrument called saz or bağlama, a type of long-necked lute. Traditionally, saz is played solely by traveling musicians called Aşık (see Aşık tradition below). In modern times, saz orchestras, accompanied with many other traditional instruments, kept folk music popular in Turkey. The zurna and davul duo (shawm and drum) is popular in rural areas, and play at wed ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Main article: Arabesque music Turkey has produced a number of popular musicians from a wide range of styles and nationally most popular are Arabesque performers. Arabesque music dominates the Turkish pop scene. The term arabesque was coined by Turkish musicologists as a derogatory term as the wailing voice used in most songs resembled the singing in Arabic music. An upbeat form of Arabesque stems from the Turkish form of Belly-dancing music and was popularized beginning in the 1940s by Kaydar Tatliyay and other performer ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Main article: Turkish folk music The folklore of Turkey is extremely diverse, consequently the music. Nevertheless, Turkish folk is dominantly marked by a single musical instrument called saz or bağlama, a type of long-necked lute. Traditionally, saz is played solely by traveling musicians called Aşık (see Aşık tradition below). In modern times, saz orcheastras, accompanied with many other traditional instruments, keep folk music popular in Turkey. The zurna and davul duo (shawm and drum) is popular in rural areas, and pla ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Arabesk, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Roma music:, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Each maqam evokes a specific emotion or set of emotions determined by the tone row and the nucleus, with different maqams sharing the same tone row but differing in nucleus and thus emotion. Maqam rast evokes pride. Maqam bayatī: vitality, joy, and femininity. Sīkah: love. Saba: sadness and pain. Hijaz: distant desert. Emotion is evoked in part through change in the size of an interval during a maqam presentation. Maqam saba, for example, contains in its first four notes, D, E-quarter-flat, F, and Gb, two neutral seconds one larger ...

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Maqam, Maqam - Passages, Maqam - Phases and central tones, Maqam - Emotional content, Maqam - Ajnas, Maqam - Principal 9 maqamat by lower jins, Maqam - Source

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Main article: Turkish pop music Turkey has produced a number of popular musicians from a wide range of styles, most famously including Lebanese or Arabesk performers. There is also a wide range of imported popular styles, including rock and roll, hip hop, heavy metal, tango and reggae. The biggest Turkish pop star of the 20th century was probably Sezen Aksu, known for overseeing the Turkish contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest and was known both for her light pop music and her controversial stances on ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Arabesk, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Roma music:, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

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Main article: Turkish pop music There is also a wide range of imported popular styles, including rock and roll, hip hop, heavy metal, tango and reggae.Sezen Aksu's music rock and roll, hip hop, heavy metal, tango and reggae?Sezen's music Arabesque-pop music.Please listen Sezen's music. The biggest Turkish pop star of the 20th century was probably Sezen Aksu. Her popularity is credited with allowing Turkish pop to have gained ground from its humble beginnings in the earl ...

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Music of Turkey, Music of Turkey - Modern history, Music of Turkey - Pop music, Music of Turkey - Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey - Arabesque, Music of Turkey - Anatolian rock, Music of Turkey - Folk music, Music of Turkey - Aşık tradition, Music of Turkey - Alevi music: Semah Deyiş and Nefes, Music of Turkey - Mevlevi music: Ayin, Music of Turkey - Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, Music of Turkey - Kurdish music, Music of Turkey - Classical music, Music of Turkey - Romany music, Music of Turkey - 20th century classical history, Music of Turkey - Turkish influence on Western classical music

Read more here: » Music of Turkey: Encyclopedia II - Music of Turkey - Pop music