Yes indeed, it does seem necessary from what I can see, maybe someone else can clarify.
And as Spartan mentioned, the Turkish musical notation method is different from the European and Arabic, for a start the notes are raised by a 4th so
a C (Do) becomes a F (Fa), a A (La) becomes a D (Re), and so on on as Yurdal Tokcan explains in this nice video:
So in my case I see that I will not only have to get used to a new tuning, but also a different type of musical notation!!
Well it's all part of the fun
Ahmed stos - 7-16-2012 at 01:39 PM
hello!
--> spartan
hmmm... I don't read music at all (except by counting the lines...) also , do you think it is a real issue for Yurdal's seminar?
thanksreminore - 7-16-2012 at 03:43 PM
c'est le meme mot en grec - partitura...partition - probably from the italian.
i think i responded to a query of ahmed's regarding ud tuning and the seminars already...i can add that when i was at xoudetsi last year i didn't read
'partitions'...i've always depended on being a quick learner and having a good ear for nuance in makam - unfortunately i have no western music theory
at all, something i've always felt has been a plus in terms of the study of makam, as i am not trying to constantly look for cognates on the staff
when moving from supurde to bolahenk so to speak...
participating in the seminar has changed all that because i realized the necessity of reading for multiple long pieces - too much for the mnemonic
technique in too short a time -if you catch my drift. 6 days, and 5 or 6 pieces of music to be performed at an open concert the last night. there
is not an atmosphere of pressure, but you need to keep your teslims and hanes in a row! by the end of the week i was comfortable remembering and
playing only half the material...faruk t. remembers i'm sure (faruk agabey - selam, ben kosta, beni hatiliyor musun?) the piece of advice mentioned
before was to bring a good recording device that you can refer back to later in the day for study (which is when not being able to read music is a
liability)...imagine, playing hard for 3 hours, having some lunch at one of three small tavernas in the village, the locusts are so loud you almost
deafened by them...the heat, and then you want to sit and study what you just learned that a.m...
the lesson learned is now i read scores, albeit slowly - but faster all the time.
