A joint book by Associate Professor Sami Dural, Dr. Erdal Kılıç and Lecturer Semih Özdemir, faculty members of the Turkish Music Department, has been published. Our academicians, who analyzed the work “Müziğin Unsurları” of Armenian musician, clergyman and researcher Yeğya M. Dındesyan, which is a figure reflected in the multicultural social structure of the 18th century Ottoman geography, in various contexts, in depth, produced an annotated translation, analysis and facsimile work. While Hamparsum deals with the writing of music and the writing of Turkish music, the book, which provides new information about the sound system on which Turkish music is based, is announced to the world of musicology.
The cover letter of the book is as follows:
“This book deals with Hamparsum music writing, which was of great importance in the recording and dissemination of Turkish music repertoire before the active use of Western music script, in the context of an annotated translation of Yeğya M. Dindesyan's book named Music Elements. In order to preserve Armenian church music, a new understanding inspired by Khaz script, the musical script that was put forward by Hamparsum Limonciyan in the first quarter of the 19th century, was adopted by Turkish music fans in the following process. Armenian church music tradition and Turkish music circles expressed their own musical nuances in the context of the aforementioned musical writing. In his book, which is the subject of our study, Dindesyan has compared the nuances of these two sides with the perspective of the Western music writing system in the title of Hamparsum music writing.”
