MAKĀSİDU’L-ELHÂN’DA SES SİSTEMİ
THE SOUND SYSTEM IN MAQĀŞID AL-ALHĀN

Summary/Abstract: In the early 15th century, a significant era in the formation of contemporary Turkish musical systems, Abd al-Qādir al-Marāghī's books, especially Maqāṣid al-alḥān occupy an important place. Many subjects like the creation of musical sound and its characteristic, showing the notes by using abjad letters, intervals, quartets, fivefolds, maqāms, awāzās and shubes are detailed and explained clearly in these theory books written on Turkish Music. In his book, Marāghī has elaborated the basics as well as the notes which compose the melodic structures, intervals, quartets, fivefolds, awāzās shubes and the well-known maqāms used in his time. For every note in the melodic structures of all these maqams, Marāghī uses abjad letters, sometimes cent values to emphasize the intervals. By this method he reflects some clues about the modal conception of his century. Being a composer and a theorist, in his book Marāghī also discusses his predecessor’s approaches on the theory of the musical sound system and helps us understand their consistency in modal understanding correctly.

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