Analysis of Turkish art music; identification of makam signatures

This study aims to gather more scientific-based concrete data by using computer technology and to figure out what extent the makam structure of Traditional Turkish Art Music interpreted in the compositions. For this reason, 120 compositions from Muhayyer kürdi, Acem kürdi and Kürdi makams from Traditional Turkish Art Music were analyzed by computer program in terms of makam and gained data were compared with the makam structure of Traditional Turkish Art Music. Also, makam of the composition is being tried to determine with the help of computer software. Musical note?s frequency of usage, usage duration and effectiveness level were calculated and progression analysis of the scales in the compositions were done. It was seen that data gained by research show parallelism to a large extent with the makam structure of the Traditional Turkish Art music. In addition, thanks to computer software the makam of the composition can be determined but it is seen that the definition of the progression cannot be expressed by mathematical data with the gained data.