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Turkish makam

Makam Hicaz — seyir over a drone

A Turkish makam study: Hicaz on the AEU 53-comma grid, its seyir spun over a tonic drone.

1 cell8 nodes2 voices
Makam Hicaz — seyir over a drone: the opening bars as grafer engraved them
The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Makam Hicaz — a Turkish makam study on the AEU 53-comma system. The Makam node emits makam Hicaz (Hicaz dörtlü + Rast beşli), comma-tuned so segâh rings at ~385¢; its Scale / Güçlü / Seyir feed the Seyir node, which grows an ascending-descending contour that arches to the tiz durak and resolves on the durak. Notated at 24-EDO over a sustained tonic drone.

The graph

The node graph of Makam Hicaz — seyir over a drone in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

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