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Azerbaycan-Türk Müziğinden Kesitler
Sections of Azerbaijan-Turkish Music

Author(s): Naile Agababa
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Poetry, Turkish Literature
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Medieval Azerbaijani-Turkish music; Shah Ismail Khatai; first orchestras, city theaters;

Summary/Abstract: Sâh Ismail was also a prolific Sufi poet and wrote under the pen name Kathai. He wrote in the Turkish language and in the Persian language. His divân, or collected poems, numbers about 400 ghazals, together with some 100 qasidas and rubais, and it remains popular to this day. He's surviving poetical output in Persian is much less sizable: all that remains of his Persian verse are four bayts, or couplets, and one mukammas, a kind of poem written in cunquains. Most of the poems are considered with love. His other serious work includes the Nasihatname, a book of advice, and unfinished Dahnçme, a book which extols the virtues of love. He loved music and invited musicians, poets, painters, scholars and art critics to his purpose. He gave them the enable for stimulating creative initiative. In palace gave them the rank of Ozanhan. There was an orchestra in the Shah Ismail's army. This orchestra was formed from musical instruments as Ceng, ud, berbet, ney and sinj. In the streets of Tebriz were shown a plays of the street theater. Shah Ismail liked to watch these plays. We had to search the roots of contemporary music in this plays.

  • Issue Year: 15/2009
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 167-173
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Turkish