Jack_Campin - 7-12-2011 at 05:31 AM
Something I see in Turkish folk music collections (e.g. Hamdi Tanses): flat signs in key signatures with superscripted numbers - looks like "flat
squared" (the commonest) but sometimes flat-cubed or flat-to-the-power-one.
Books on classical Turkish music don't use that system. What pitches do they mean?
Here's an example of flat-squared:
http://www.kapadokyamuzik.com/TURKULER/c2/canakkaleicinde.jpg
eliot - 7-13-2011 at 07:36 PM
Hi Jack,
A 2 above a flat (or backwards flat) means "2 koma" flat. 1 koma = 22.6 cents, or 1/53 of an octave. The symbols in Turkish music notation allow us to
write one-comma, four-comma, and five-comma intervals, but not 2 or 3, and that's why some folklorists follow the system Bartok introduced to Turkey
in 1937 and use the 2s or 3s.
Jack_Campin - 7-15-2011 at 01:23 AM
Thanks. I presume there are baglama frets for that note, given how common it seems to be?