Domenico Scarlatti’s unique use of the chords with non-chord tones, which distinguishes the composer distinctly from its contemporaries, can be encountered in many of his keyboard sonatas. Such tone clusters which seem to ...

As is known, the modern “maqam theory” of Ottoman/Turkish music tradition is based on the concept of perde (standardized note names). In this study, we concentrated on the music-theoretical manuscripts written before the ...

In music, the motif, which can be defined as the smallest building unit with the thematic identity of a work and repeated at many points of the work to which it is related, in the same or differentiated forms, is a vital ...