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Description of  Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the Near and Middle East, 177)

9004531254 pdf This work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers accounts and iconography, to present a synthetic picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music from the early 17th to the mid-18th centuries.