(Institute of Social Sciences, 2019)
Demirtaş, Salih; Dişiaçık, Nilgün Doğrusöz; 555948; Music; Müzik
This dissertation provides a methodological example of critical edition for sources in Hampartsum notation. YZPER2 , the Hampartsum manusript of this study belongs to the private archive of Ali Rifat Çağatay (1867-1935), a significant musical figure of Turkish Music during early twentieth century. The manuscript consist of 21 compositions belonging to instrumental genre of makâm music. Guidelines of the methodology are developed by Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO), a research project carried out by Institute for Musicology at the University of Münster in Germany.The final commentaries of the critical edition covers paleographic and orthographic specifications of the notation system and the value of the manuscript as a historical source.