Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original sheet music. Folio. (35 x 25 cm). In Ottoman script. [4] p., scores. [SHEET MUSIC] Muhayyer Naksî Agir Semâî - Muhayyer Naksî Yürük Semâî. Darü'l-Elhan Külliyati No.3 [The House of Melodies Collected Works No. 3]. [With original stamp of Samli Iskender -Kudmanizâde-]. Darülelhan (The House of Melodies) is not a real publishinghouse but a music school established at 10 January 1917, in Istanbul. The principle aim in the establishment of this school was to follow a scientific way in the education and teaching of musical arts, and introduce the old pieces by printing them. Some courses on Turkish and Western music should be given in a course of four years. This school closed in the days of Independence War and reopened by the attempts of Haydar Beg the mayor of Istanbul in 1923. On this publications, it's written usually "Our establishment started to publish the beautiful pieces inhereted from the most famous Turkish composers in order to conserve them. These publications are checked by a scientifically responsible council and found ass quite correct. Up to now, the pieces contining Setarabân, Mâye, Evç-ârâ, Acem Asirân, Müste'ar, Nevâ, Gulizâr, Beyâti, Mâhur, Ferâhfezâ, Ferâhnâk, Nev-eser, Nühüft and Arazbâr Buselik tones, havng the number 72 have already been put on sale for 5 Kurus at the magazine of Samli Iskender in Bayezid Square". (Source: Music publications from Ottoman Empire up to today, 1876-1986.; ALANER, BÜLENT). First Semâîs' composer is unknown, second one is by Eyyûbî Bekir Aga. He was an early classical Turkish composers. Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar's devoted his book 'Mahur Beste' to Eyyûbî Efendi and inspired by him. Darülelhan published 121 scores before 1928, this is the third one. Özege 3585. Not in OCLC. Extremely rare.
