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Giovanni De Zorzi: Istanbul fieldwork 2024-25
From May to July 2024, and subsequently from April to June 2025, I conducted fieldwork in Istanbul, focusing on the current state of Ottoman-Turkish art music (makam). Given our project’s ‘beyond nation’ scope, I proposed that the concert scheduled for November 20, 2024, in Venice should feature compositions by ‘foreign’ composers—referred to as acemler, acemī, or acemīyūn, and generally regarded as ‘Persians’—found in 17th and 18th-century treatises by Bobowski, Cantemir, and Kevserī. Consequently, […]