Critical Editions of Near Eastern Music Manuscripts

From the early nineteenth century onwards, the courtly and urban music of Ottoman Istanbul was increasingly recorded in writing. The principal notation system used for this purpose was invented in around 1812 by the Ottoman Armenian musician Hambarjum Limōnčean (Tr. Hamparsum Limonciyan, 1768–1839) and a number of other collaborators. “Hampartsum” (or “Hamparsum”) notation was well adapted to the modal and rhythmic principles of Ottoman music, and was used by both Armenian and Muslim–Turkish musicians throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, European staff notation was used by Ottoman musicians from the 1830s onwards. The large number of extant manuscripts in both notation systems are of major significance as documents of a musical culture that was shared across the urban centres of the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean well into the twentieth century....

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