Topkapi / Music of the Ottoman Empire

Music of the Ottoman Empire of the 16th and 17th centuries
According to the Book of Music Sciences by Dimitri Cantemir.

Gülay Hacer Toruk, Emmanuel Bardon: Vocals
Aliocha Regnard: Nyckelharpa & Fidula
Emmanuelle Guigues: Kamensheh & Vièle
Isabelle Courroy: Kaval Flutes
Arussiak Guevorgian: Kanun
Philippe Roche: Oud
Ismail Mesbahi: Percussion

Makäm-i Sûri Semâ’î: Dimitri Cantemir – Ottoman Empire
Punxa, Punxa: Sephardic – Turkey
Makâm-i Hüseyui Sakïl-i Agâ Rizâ: Dimitri Cantemir – Ottoman Empire
Nacimiento Y Cocacion De Abraham: Sephardic – Turkey
Makam-i Uzzal: Dervis Mehmed – Ottoman Empire
Semsiyemin Ucu Kare: Süleyman Cakal – Popular Ottoman Empire
Armen Aravod: Armenia
Majo, majo, majo: Sephardic – Turkey
Aysor Dzayne: Sirt in sassani – Armenia
The Turkish Armada: Sephardic – Esmirna
Altim tasta gül kuruttum: Nimet Hanim – Ottoman Empire
Rast nakis yürük semâî, Biz âlûde-î sâgar-î bâdeyiz: Hâfiz Post – Ottoman Empire
Makam-i Rehavi çember: Dimitri Cantemir – Ottoman Empire
Una matica de ruda: Sephardic – Balkan
Uskudar: Ottoman Empire
Numi, numi yaldati: Palestine

It was at the Ottoman court that, in the 16th century, one of the most refined music of the Near and Middle East was born. This palatine music based on the maqâm has flourished over the centuries. She has always enjoyed the favor of music-loving sultans. His influences are multiple. Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Byzantine, Armenian and even Gypsy melodies had a decisive influence on the development of Ottoman music.

Soldiers, religious and aristocrats practiced and developed, each in their own way, a specific musical form to ennoble themselves and affirm the symbol of their power. Like a banner, music had both a social and an aesthetic function. Thus was enriched a delicate and diversified music, assimilating all the cultural aspects of one of the greatest Muslim empires.

[sphericum]

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[Electrasound]

The description says that this music is from the 16th and 17th centuries. Are there music scores from the 16th and 17th centuries?

[danyelnicholas]

Silly mix of anachronistic instruments. Never was Ottoman music played with a davul, the only viol was the viole d‘amour (sinekemân), the kaval (a wooden shepherd’s flute from the Balkans) is not at all a siyeh nāy, the oud kāmil died out in the 17th c CE and the modern oud, seen here, was not part of the Ottoman ensemble etc etc. If somebody played baroque music like that they would be laughed at.