The Kevserî Mecmûası Unveiled
Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Collection of Ottoman Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9275037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | MEHMET UĞUR EKINCI (0000-0002-4482-8067, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-225 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1356186312000259 |
| OpenAlex | W2062110737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Kevserî Mecmûası is an eighteenth-century Turkish manuscript, which includes, in addition to a variety of music-related contents, a fairly large collection of notations. Given the scarcity of notational sources, it offers invaluable material for understanding the performance practice and compositional style of Ottoman music before the nineteenth century. Having studied a hitherto unknown microfilm copy of this manuscript, the original of which has remained up to now in a private library and closed to our access, the author aims in this article to introduce this source and discuss its potential contribution to the knowledge of Ottoman music. The article is organised roughly in two parts. First, it will present briefly the contents of the manuscript, integrating new evidence and clues about its date, author and purpose into existing knowledge. Second, it will focus on the collection of notations in the manuscript, and by comparing it with the earlier collections will argue that, contrary to the prevailing views expressed in the literature, no large-scale transformation in the style of Ottoman music took place in the early eighteenth century
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Microform · Notation · Style (visual arts) · Turkish · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Classics · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Music Education and Analysis · Philosophy · Turkish Literature and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |