Turkish Music therapy / Hüseyni Sema: for Happiness and against fever - Cantemir *1673

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Jordi Savall: Song: "Der makām-ı Hüseynī Semâ'î (Mss. D.Cantemir 268)" from Album: Istanbul

Old Ottoman Turkish Music therapy / Musiktherapie / Türk Müzik terapisi - Hüseyni Sema: For happiness and against fever / Für Zufriedenheit und gegen Fieber from Dimtri Kandemiroglu *1673

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.

3. Ottoman Turkish music modes as a mean of therapy

Patients suffering from a certain illness or the emotions of persons with a certain temperament were expected to be influenced by specific modes of music. Certain makams, that is musical modes, were prescribed for therapeutic purposes. Makam is "a concept of melody which determines tonal relations, as well as an overall indication of the melodic patterns." Modes, as patterns of organized sounds, were believed to express special meanings. Though there are about 80 Turkish modes; usually only 12 were prescribed for therapy, in accordance with the limitation of the related theories of cosmic elements and numerology, as it is in the Islamic and ancient sources. From the old texts we can deduce the kind of music which was supposed to cure a certain disease or create certain feelings and favour certain behaviours; though the musical modes of those days are not the same as those that we know today.

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  • This is one of the most wonderful melodies ever created worldwide.

    I took the liberty of using it in as a soundtrack for my video about Edirne.

    Çok güzel, sağ olun

  • cok guzel

    best greetings from EGYPT.

  • Beautiful. Who are the performers?

  • emegine saglik üstad

  • I feel happy again :)

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