Taksim (music)

Taksim ( Turkish ) or Taqsim ( Arabic تقسيم, DMG taqsīm 'division', plural taqāsīm ) is a mostly rhythmically free solo improvisation to a certain maqam (mode) in Arabic and Turkish art music , with which an instrumentalist usually leads over to the following rhythmic parts played by the orchestra. Music theory basics and performance practice correspond “more or less” to the Persian Radif .

The musical instruments used in Taksim include the Oud , Kanun , Tanbur , Ney and Darbuka or another instrument that is able to produce the fine partials ( commas ) of oriental art music, because unlike Western music, there is in the Art music nine steps to the next whole tone and not just a semitone step .

Vowel improvisations, which follow similar formal laws as in Taksim, are the mawāwīl (singular mawwāl ) of Egyptian classical music and the gazel in Turkish music in the 19th century .

In the accompanying music of the Malay Zapin dance theater, Taksim is the opening part played by the lute gambus .

literature

Ursula Reinhard, Irene Markoff, Yildiray Erdener, Karl Signell: Turkey. An overview . In: Ellen Koskoff u. a. (Ed.): The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 2: The Middle East. South Asia. East Asia. Southeast Asia. Routledge, New York 2008, pp. 873, ISBN 978-0-415-99404-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Jean During: The Radif of Mirzâ Abdollâh. A Canonic Repertoire of Persian Music. Edited by Jean During, Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, Teheran 2006, ISBN 964-8772-09-6 , p. 50.

[1] Jean During: The Radif of Mirzâ Abdollâh. A Canonic Repertoire of Persian Music. Edited by Jean During, Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, Teheran 2006, ISBN 964-8772-09-6 , p. 50.