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The Story Of Ali Ufki-Bobovski. Notation of Turkish Music.

The Story Of Ali Ufki-Bobovski. Notation of Turkish Music.

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Füsun Deniz Özden
Faculty of Art and Design / Beykoz University
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The first Ottoman musician using notation to write down melodies is Ali Ufki(1610-1677). He was converted from Wojciech Bobowski(named Albertus Bobovius or Ali Beg) and lived at Enderun- Ottoman Court as a slave at the beginning. He was gained fame thanks to versatile personality and became great dragoman in 1673. He wrote down the Turkish melodies by using European Music Notation and was compiling an anthology of vocal and instrumental melodies called Ali Ufki’s Mecmua which is the unique document of Turkish musical culture of the seventeenth century. He eliminated the cumber some transliteration, wrote all the music from right to left, and added the words of the songs written in Turkish with Arabic script, partly, under the notes, and partly below the music. The evolution of his method is a case in point of acculturation between Western system and Islamic concept of graphism. We learn many things from Ali Ufki not only music culture but Ottoman Culture and life as well. As for his working of music, they recall us Umberto Eco’s “The Open Work”. While he was inside the Ottoman Court he thought to arrange and create symbols for Turkish Music. He kept his former identity by this way and supplied to carry the Ottoman Sound as an absolut.

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