Segah Peşrev - Composer: Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey *1816
Ottoman Music Therapy
Is music an efficient means of healing? Can disease be hindered by melodies? Music has been used as a means of therapy through the centuries to heal all kinds of diseases and disorders by various peoples, in spite of discussions about it. Turkish communities have also been practicing music therapy since the pre-Islamic era. Kam, the Turkish shaman tried to get into relation with the spirits of the other world by means of his or her davul, the drum and oyun, the ritual ceremony; hence they tried to benefit from their supernatural powers. The kam tried to affect the spirits by utilizing music, either driving evil spirits away, or attracting the help of good spirits so as to achieve treatment.
We find Ottoman books and pamphlets on the influence of sound on man and the effect of music in healing, both in works on medicine and music. Ideas of Al-Farabi, Al-Razi and Ibn Sina on music were followed by several Ottoman writers such as Gevrekzade (d. 1801), Şuuri (d. 1693), Ali Ufki (1610-1675), Kantemiroǧlu (Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, 1673-1723) and Haşim Bey (19th century). The study of music by these writers as a therapeutic means and comprehensive information given by them on the effects of music on man's mind and body note the existence of interest and curiosity on the subject during the Ottoman period. Ottoman medical writers such as Abbas Vesim (d. 1759/60) and Gevrekzade offered music to be included in medical education, along with mathematics, astronomy and philosophy, as in order to be a good physician one ought to have been trained in music. This recalls us that music had been included in the quadrivium, the Latin curriculum taught at universities until the late Middle Ages and whih included arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music. [more... on Website]
About the Composer
Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey (1816--1885) was an Ottoman composer and tanbur player. He is considered one of the most outstanding peşrev compositors in Ottoman classical music.
Life
Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey was born in 1816 in the Tophane district of Istanbul. Most of the information we have on him originates from an oral tradition amongst his pupils and the pupils of those who knew him. His father, Zeki Mehmed Ağa as well has his grandfather Tanburi Numan Ağa were musicians of renown. At the age of eight, he was accepted to the Imperial School of Enderun, where he began his education among the foregoing masters of Turkish classical music, from whom he required a firm theoretical basis. His acquaintance with the tanbur also dates back to those years.
As his father Zeki Mehmed Ağa is said to have refused to pass on to his son his knowledge of the tanbur, most of the work must have come to be incumbent on Osman Bey himself. He is also said to have participated in fasıls with prominent vocal musicians of his time such as Rifat Bey and Haşim Bey, improving mostly his vocal technique. With the death of his father, he gave up singing and concentrated solely on his instrument and took part in "incesaz fasılları" performed at the court of Sultan Abdülaziz Han. He is said to have made most of his compositions at this period. As he was enthusiastic about Mevlana Djelaleddin Rumi, he frequented many mevlevihanes, especially the Kulekapısı Mevlevihanesi on Fridays[1].
He is also said to have had an obsessive temperament, known for attempting to beat a kanuni who played a false note while playing the transition to the final part of his uşşak peşrevi.
Compsitions:
In 1885, he succumbed to a pulmonary disorder from which he had been suffering for a long time, and is now buried in the cemetery of the Yahya Efendi Dergâhı in Istanbul. He had three sons and a daughter.
As a composer, he excelled mostly in peşrevs which make up an important part of the current repertoire. His style displays a certain minimalism, avoiding rapid changes from one uslub to the other, thus lightening the peşrev form and conferring it a balanced structure. Most of his peşrevs use devr-i kebir as their rhythmical basis and are easily distinguishable from the earlier works of his precedents. The only former peşrev composer he is said to have cherished is Gazi Giray Han, of whose "Hüzzam Peşrevi" he had much appreciation (he designated the work as "sehl-i mümtenî", meaning "a simple work done with great skill", a "piece of jewel"). After having refused for a long time to compose a peşrev in this maqam (hüzzam) for the musical rites of the Mevlevi order, he finally composed the famous hüzzam peşrevi on the instigation of the sheikh of the Galata Mevlevi Monastery Atâullah Efendi. This piece is still widely heard during Mevlevi rites.
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Sufi music from Turkey - Hak divanındaby muzbey91,129 views
What would you prefer when you are traumatised by war, sexual abuse or mental illness. Understanding and love that this music conveys, or cold clinical sterility of tablets, endless clinics and so on. Western medicine works, but there is such a thing as the healing 'arts' which is much more subtle, and treats a persons inner being. music is a healer.
silverkinjal 1 week ago
I think Neyzen Yusuf Pasa's Segah Pesrev is better
saidkocak 1 month ago
I love this..! We can read Biology, Chemistry, Physics n other sciences in it <3
Alqn666 2 months ago
so what is the meaning of this particular piece of music? was it tried on mentaly ill people? if yes, can you show a study with the results? if not, can you indicate one?
LeChatAlice 2 months ago
Oh violet and beutifull dream why have we awoken from it and have only nigthmares now?
ImperialGuard9001 4 months ago 2
don't wake me up!!!
ohar1963 6 months ago
psıkologmuusn kardeşim sen ben ney sesinde huzur bulmuyorum amk ne olucak kendimi nasıl imtihana çekicem bi anlatsana
trtelekom 7 months ago
Eğer şu Ney sesinde bile huzur bulamıyorsa insan
bence kendini imtihana çekmek için geç kalmış demektir.
senhepbenimsin 9 months ago
Süper yaa .. ♥
Bartinli1905 10 months ago