The important factors in identifying the heard maqam

The Turkish Music provides a very wide research field with its past goes through centuries, own peculiar sound system, education and teaching methods, repertoires and customs. Beyond being only a branch of art, with its education pattern, the feature of this music to be a cultural transference platform, gives this research field an opportunity to combine with other different disciplines. The practicing (Meşk) is the oldest known education and teaching method in Turkish music. This system, which is based on a strong memory in its basics, was put into practice effectively in the periods when the musical note writing had not been used yet like the form at present and it maintains to bring thousands of works of art and their performance style up to centuries later. In the later years by starting the usage of note system, even the