Download or read book The Ottoman Tanbûr written by Hans de Zeeuw and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Tanbûr provides a detailed study of the history of this long-necked lute-like instrument, its role in Ottoman music, construction and playing technique.Tanbûrsare played in the art, Sûfî, and folk musical traditions along the Silk Road and beyond. In Turkey, the name tanbûris mainly used as a name for the long-necked tanbûrof Ottoman art music, the Ottoman tanbûr. The origin and early development of the Ottoman tanbûris, notwithstanding its importance, still not fully understood due to the absence or scarcity of literary and iconographical sources, while well-preserved Ottoman tanbûrsare rare or non-existent. The book explores the political and cultural-historical conditions that contributed to the development of a distinct Ottoman Art music (Osmanlı san'at mûsîkîsi)in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the central place given to the tanbûr. Thereafter, Ottoman art music and the Ottoman tanbûrsuffered from official neglect until the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and even rejection after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. This situation changed after the foundation of the first Turkish music conservatory in 1975 at the Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (ITÜ). The revival of Ottoman art music since the 1990s resulted in a rehabilitation of Ottoman art music and of the Ottoman tanbûrwhose days had seemed to be numbered.