Jono Oud N.Z
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Bashraf Saba
Bashraf in Saba (Cantemir collection).
Just learning this one.
I like this piece
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Sama'i Saba
I plan to try learning this one.
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Can I ask a novice question? What is a Bashraf and what is the origin of this piece?
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Jono Oud N.Z
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Nice samai
This piece is from the Demetrius Cantemir collection of notations. I transposed it to Arabic/Western pitch/key.
Wright, Owen, Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations, Part 1, Text, (London, School of Oriental and African and Studies, 1992), p.
450
The Bashraf dates from the Abbasid courts where it was an instrumental version of the Sawt song type.
During the Timurid period, a new type of Bashraf appeared with no relation to the Sawt.
The Bashraf was also used in military music and then incorporated and transformed into court interpretations.
'The Ottomans inherited the basic structure of the pesrev/pishrow from the music of late medieval Iran'.
The Pishrow (Bashraf) disappeared from Persian music in the 19th century and was replaced by the Pishdaramad.
Feldman, Walter, Music of the Ottoman Court (Berlin, VWB, 1996), p. 307-309
Fallahzadeh, Mehrdad, Two Treatise, Two Streams: Treatise from the Post-Scholastic Era of Persian Writings on Music Theory / Edited, Translated
into English by Mehrdad Fallahzadeh, (Maryland, Ibex, 2009), p. 170.
A Bashraf is often played these days as a prelude, but back in the 15th and 16th centuries, it seemed to simply mean instrumental piece.
There was a purely instrumental concert (Turkish - 'Fasil- Sazendeler'), including Bashraf', Taqasim and usually concluding with a Samai.
The Samai was a quick 6/8 Yuruk Samai piece until the early 1700's when the 10/8 usul was often used with a part in 6/8 or independently.
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