Saz semai
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The saz semai (also spelled in
usul
(rhythmic structure) called aksak semai.
A saz semai is typically in 4 movements, called hane (lit. "house"), each movement followed by a teslim (refrain). The teslim and the first three hane are usually in rhythm structure 10/8, unlike the fourth hane which will be in 6/4.
Common Saz Semaisi
Some Saz Semaisi are very known and played in the all makam music area (From Greece to Iraq, and from Iraq to Morocco). Here a few of them :
- Semâi al Thakil - also called : Arap saz semai. This samai is in makam Bayati.
- Semâi Al-Aryan - also called : Samâi Bayati.
- Semâi Shad Araban - Sed-i-Araban Saz Semaisi. Composed by Tanburi Cemil Bey.
- Semâi Husseyni. Composed by Tatyos Efendi.
- Semâi Nahawand - Nihavend Saz Semaisi. Composed by the son of Tanburi Cemil Bey : Mesut Cemil (Son of Cemil Bey).
Saz Semai 's Composers
- Tanburi Cemil Beywas a noted composer of saz semai.
- Ismail Hakki Bey
- Misirli Ibrahim Effendi
Bibliography
- Walter Feldman : "Music of the Ottoman court : Makam, composition in the early Ottoman instrumental repertoire" ; Intercultural Music Studies, 1996.
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