Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
OSMANLI ARASTIRMALARI-THE JOURNAL OF OTTOMAN STUDIES, cilt.2022, sa.60, ss.61-96, 2022 (AHCI)
It has been commonly argued that classical Turkish music was reshaped from the middle of the 17(th) century onwards with a different style from earlier periods. No connection has so far been established between the repertoires of this tradition, which have survived to our present time, and the 15(th)-century music which is referred to in the academic literature as the 'antecedent tradition'. It is claimed that the existing melodies that are said to belong to 15(th)-century composers, especially Abd al-Qadir al-Maraghi, were composed much later and attributed to earlier famous composers in order to establish a connection with the ancient tradition, which had become obsolete by that time. This article demonstrates that Mahur Kar, a piece that has reached our time as a Maraghi composition, is at least five centuries old. Through a detailed analy-sis carried out on different copies of Mahur Kar, the only vocal piece surviving from the ancient tradition, it revisits a number of arguments in the literature regarding the historical transformation of Turkish music. A concrete link between the music that took shape in the Ottoman cultural sphere during the 17(th )century and the classical repertoire of the 15th century is established for the first time.