Project Details
Projekt Print View

Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO). Critical Editions of Middle Eastern Music Manuscripts

Subject Area Musicology
Term since 2015
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 265450857
 
From the early 1820s, initially in Istanbul, the courtly and urban Ottoman music repertoire was recorded in a growing number of manuscripts. Mainly, the notation developed by Armenian Hamparsum Limonciyan (1768-1839) before 1813, a very suitable system for the transcription of the art music repertoire, was used for this purpose. The Western notation was also used increasingly after mid-1830s. The surviving manuscripts in both notation forms are significant for the transmission of an art music culture that has been maintained until the early 20th century in the urban centers of todays Turkey, Syria and Egypt. These resources are of primary importance not only for musicological research, which can reveal certain historical phenomena and processes in the music cultures for the first time, but also for the Oriental studies. This long-term project aims to prepare the critical editions of the main 19th century manuscripts in Hamparsum-notation in the initial phase of 7 years. The second phase of 5 years is additionally focusing on the critical edition of selected manuscripts written in Western staff notation from the same period. Parallel to this process, texts of the vocal compositions will be edited by an interdisciplinary group of scholars. The edition of Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) - Critical Editions of Middle Eastern Music Manuscripts is based on open-access principle and published online by the perspectivia.net editorial team of the Max Weber Foundation. Editions of single manuscripts will also be available as print-on-demand books. The project as a whole is carried out at the University of Münster - Institute for Musicology, in cooperation with Orient-Institute Istanbul and the Department "Research Infrastructures, Libraries, IT" (both part of Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad) and the University of Münster, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. An international board of advisors supports the project.
DFG Programme Research Grants
 
 

Additional Information

Textvergrößerung und Kontrastanpassung