[Ottoman Music Transcriptions from the 9.2 File Group]
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Musical transcriptions of Ottoman music are preserved primarily in Western staff notation and occasionally in Hamparsum notation. The source group includes instrumental and vocal repertory such as peşrev, semâî, şarkı, and taksim, as well as makam-based pieces (e.g. Hüzzam, Hüseynî, Acem-Aşiran, Beyati, Suzinak, Rast, Hicaz, Neva, Şehnaz). The materials consist of small file units, loose sheets, and short fascicles of varying archival coherence, including some untitled musical fragments, technical notation exercises, and occasional transcriptions of Greek folk or Western-style music.
Language
Ottoman Turkish
Greek
Armenian
Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script
Ottoman Turkish in Latin script
Greek in Greek script
Ottoman Turkish in Greek script
Ottoman Turkish in Armenian script
Note
Editors
The 9.2 group consists mainly of miscellaneous loose sheets and small fascicles containing one or only a few musical transcriptions, many of which are untitled or carry only generic or technical headings rather than distinctive source titles. Some transcriptions could not be cataloged due to illegible or missing titles, while files containing Western-style music were excluded from the Ottoman music catalog. Due to the fragmentary nature of the material, the 9.2 files were cataloged as a unified archival source group, with the individual musical items entered at the expression level. Original file numbers were preserved as internal archival references.
