THE COMPOSITIONS OF SERGEANT ISMAIL AGHA AND SOME FINDINGS FROM HIS THE LYRIC BOOK (BERLIN 3370)
Authors: USLU Recep 
Published: October 2022

This lyric book, which is the subject of the article, has been examined with the qualitative research method. The original manuscript of the lyrics book is from the Berlin Staatsbibliothek Ms. or. Fol. It is located at 3370. The manuscript in the library record is 210 pages. The author of the manuscript and the date it was written are uncertain. It has been identified as a work written in the 17th century. A more specific date has not been identified in it. In the first review in this article, it was tried to reveal when the journal was written and by whom it might have been written, using the systematic musicology method. Among the first detected findings, we can count the following: It was seen that two of the 39 makams that make up the index of the manuscript were not recorded in the lyrics. These are sumbule and uzzal chapters. Each page is gold framed. At the beginning of the lyrics, the maqam, the tempo and the composer are often mentioned. Six pages have the new style miniatures of music. Suddenly, when I tried to conclude these and many other determinations as an article, I saw that a research paper by Basher was published in a journal. I removed the general findings from the article I prepared and re-edited my article based on different findings. In this article, the person who wrote the lyrics magazine and the year of its writing were specifically questioned. Among the results found, it was revealed that the author was İsmail Ağa, who died in 1800, and that he might have written his lyric book in the 1780s, for various reasons. The 17th century record in the Berlin library record is not correct, it must be the second half of the 18th century. Among the important findings supporting the determination of the writing date of the journal are the following findings: 1-Majmua was written during the youth of Nasır Dede and the princedom of Sultan Selim III, but none of the makams he invented after 1780. 2- In the journal, there are evicbuse makam compositions from the new makams of the mid-18th century, which Nasır Dede called new that cedid. 3-In comparison with the Hekimbashi journal, which was determined to have been written in 1767, it was seen that some of the same composers were registered as sergeants in the Hekimbashi journal while they were recorded as aghas in the other journal. This finding shows us that the journal no. 3370 was written after 1767. 4-Hizir Agha wrote about his new invention of the musebba usul in his work dated 1777. Hatem of Akovalı stated the name of this new musebba usul in a poem in his Divan. There is a composition in the musebba usul style in this lyric collection. Thus, it is understood that there is a relationship of acquaintance and historical closeness between the writer of the journal and Hızır Agha. Composer and lyric book owner Ebubekir Agha, who died in 1759, and the author of the magazine, Chief Sergeant İsmail Agha, have a familiar relationship, such as being a music student. In conclusion, this article proposes that composer Chief Sergeant İsmail Ağa is the author of Berlin's lyric book in 3370 and that it was compiled in 1780.