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The Microtonal Scales of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (a Primer and Compendium)

The Pop Descriptivist 7,302 lượt xem 3 months ago
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Tolgahan Çoğulu comparing 'Sleep Drifter' with 'Kara Toprak'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BbC2M7NIEg

Derdiyoklar İkilisi's 'Maden Ocaği'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1SHW9-J42c

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Encyclopedia of Turkish and Arabic makams for oud
https://www.channelingstudio.ru/texts/Music%20Theory%20of%20Makams.pdf

A good synopsis of Turkish makams
https://we.riseup.net/assets/545041/Turkish-tetrachords.pdf

Edward Hines' 1/8th tone interpretation of Turkish makams
https://www.hinesmusic.com/What_Are_Makams.html

Encyclopedia of Arabic maqams
https://www.maqamworld.com/en/index.php

A synopsis of Turkish classical music
https://makampedia.com/onewebmedia/Makam_Modality_and_style_in_Turkish_art.pdf

You can browse the slides and sheet music that are used in this video on my website.
https://sites.google.com/site/thepopdescriptivist/home/the-microtonal-scales-of-king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard

===== Contents of this Video =====
0:00 - Introductory Remarks
1:42 - The Music Theory of Quarter Tones
3:42 - Traditional Quarter Tone Music
6:58 - The Hüseyni Makam
9:54 - Examples of the Hüseyni Scale
13:41 - Variations on Hüseyni - Ushaq Masri
17:08 - Variations on Hüseyni - Neva
20:32 - Other Variations on Hüseyni
26:06 - The Subminor Phrygian Scale
33:22 - The Neutral Hicazkar Scale
39:13 - The Scales of 'Honey'
42:16 - The Scales of 'K.G.L.W.'
45:19 - Concluding Remarks

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