{"id":35859,"date":"2014-09-30T16:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/?post_type=cini_news&p=35859"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:39:32","slug":"birun-ottoman-music-seminars-call-for-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"cini_news","link":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/cini_news\/birun-ottoman-music-seminars-call-for-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00eer\u00fbn. Ottoman Music Seminars. Call for scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

B\u00eer\u00fbn. Ottoman Music Seminars
\n<\/strong>Director Kudsi Erguner
\n13-18 April, 2015
\nFondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice<\/p>\n

The maftir\u00eem<\/em> and the works of Sephardi Jews in Ottoman classical music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Call for scholarship applications: deadline 15 January 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 13 to 18 April 2015 the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, part of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice,\u00a0 will organize the fourth edition of B\u00eer\u00fbn<\/em>, seminars on classical Ottoman music, directed by Kudsi Erguner,\u00a0 addressed to professional and semi-professional musicians.<\/p>\n

Ottoman classical music is based on the maq\u00e2m<\/em> modal system and has been enhanced by contributions from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Jewish and Armenian composers who lived and worked in the territory of the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n

In the world of Ottoman classical music, the Jewish literary and religious traditions offer a great variety of poetic and musical works. The Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire developed in particular a paraliturgical musical tradition called maftir\u00eem, <\/em>conceived to accompany some religious-type meetings in which poems called piyyutum<\/em> set to Ottoman maq\u00e2m<\/em> were sung. The maftir\u00eem<\/em> tradition, however, came into being also through the interaction of the Jewish community and the Dervish community, especially the confraternity of the Whirling Dervishes (Mevlev\u00eeye<\/em>). The great composer, poet and cantor Israel Najara (1555-1625) is considered to have initiated this specific Ottoman Sephardi tradition.<\/p>\n

More generally, the Sephardi Jews, who were already familiar with the modal music of Andalucia, easily assimilated the modal system of the Ottoman maq\u00e2m <\/em>\u00a0and its specific forms. In view of this, the fourth edition of the B\u00eer\u00fbn<\/em> workshop will not only be devoted to the spiritual tradition of the maftir\u00eem<\/em> but also secular works by Jewish composers, such as Moshe Faro, who lived in the second half of the 18th century and was active at the court of Sultan Mahmud I (1730-1754), and of a genius like \u0130zak Fresco Romano (1745-1814), active at the court of Selim III (1761-1808).<\/p>\n

Scholarships<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is offering six scholarships<\/strong> for: male voice,\u00a0 ney <\/em>(flute), \u2018\u00fbd <\/em>(short-necked lute), tanb\u00fbr <\/em>(long-necked lute), kan\u00fbn <\/em>(plucked box zither), kemen\u00e7e<\/em> (bowed box-shaped lute) or yayli tanb\u00fbr <\/em>(bowed long-necked lute) and percussions \u2013 def <\/em>or bender <\/em>(frame drums), zarb <\/em>(goblet drum)and kud\u00fbm <\/em>(drums).<\/p>\n

The scholarship will cover: registration fees, accommodation (in the Vittore Branca Center Residence), lunches (no dinners) and travelling expenses (up to 400 euros in economy class).<\/p>\n

To participate in the selection, candidates must send the following material to the seminar secretary’s office (email: birun@cini.it<\/a>) before 15 January 2015<\/strong>:<\/p>\n