Words Without Songs (SOAS Musicology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: December 31, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780728602090
Subjects: Folk music; Vocal music; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Issues; History: World
First sentence: Given the paucity of technical treatises on music in pre-modern Turkish, it may reasonably be claimed that the most characteristic Ottoman form of musical literature is to be found not among works providing descriptive or analytical material but in the song-text collections, beste/sarki/gufte mecmualari.