Book | A Musical Treatise of the Eighteen Century

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Tanburi Kucuk Artin: A Musical Treatise of the Eighteen Century by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz

Paperback: 204 pages | Publisher: Pan; 1st edition (March 1, 2002)| English
ISBN-10: 9758434330 | ISBN-13: 978-9758434336

This book is an in-depth examination of Tanburi Kucuk Artin 's unique work written in Turkish with Armenian characters on the practical theory of the Ottoman art music of the eighteenth century. A court musician to Sultan Mahmud I and also to Nadir Shah of Iran, the Armenian musician Artin has traveled from Istanbul to India gathering along the way an abundance of musical knowledge and colorful anecdotes from vast regions. Placed at midway between Dimitrie Cantemir and Abdulbaki Dede, he occupies a privileged position in the history of Turkish Music as an original writer and inventive musician and tanbur teacher. The presentation in this inquisitive study by Eugenia Popescu-Judetz is intended for both musicians and musicologists. It includes Artin's original text composed in Turkish with notational examples, a comprehensive commentary and insightful analysis, and is completed with a series of comparative tables.

Eugenia Popescu-Judetz is an ethnomusicologist and an art historian affiliated with Duquesne University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, holding utmost expertise in Turkish musical writings and performing arts of the Ottoman era. She is the author of several monographs and essays focused on the musical literature of the eighteenth century. In recent years, she published some significant studies on Dimitrie Cantemir's theory of Turkish music, Kevseri's treatise and other Ottoman sources of the period.