4. The Ney in Mevlevi Music

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Musical Examples and Figures vii
4. Images x
5. A Note on Orthography and Transliteration xii
6. Turkish Musical Symbols and the Intonation of Ottoman Music xv
7. Preface xvii
8. Acknowledgements xxi
9. Part I. History and Culture of the Mevlevi Dervishes
10. Introduction: Continuities and Ruptures in the Mevlevi Tradition 1
11. 1. Defining the Mystical Music of the Mevlevi Dervishes 12
12. 2. The Mevlevi Phenomenon 34
13. 3. Development and Cultural Affinities of the Mevlevi Ayin 57
14. 4. The Ney in Mevlevi Music 85
15. 5. The Mevlevi Neyzen as an Ideal Representative of Ottoman Culture 112
16. Part II. Music of the Mevlevis
17. 6. The Position of Music within the Mevleviye 133
18. 7. The Musical Structure of the Ayin 162
19. 8. Music, Poetry, and Composition in the Ayin 193
20. 9. The Sema’i in the Third Selam and the Son Yürük Sema’i: Nucleus of the Antecedent Samā’? 218
21. Postlude: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire 233
22. Glossary 241
23. References Cited 248
24. Index 262