Amazing example of Turkish Classical Music. Ziya Taşkent singing (with an equally amazing clarinet introduction (taksim)) Saçların Tarumar.

This piece is in the “Rast” “makam” and in the “düyek” style. Actually Turkish / Ottoman classical music has totally different and extraordinary tonality. 

Rast is a Persian word (راست) meaning “right” or “direct”. Rast is regarded as the basic maqam in Iranian as well as in Arabic music, in the same way as the major scale in Western music, though it is rather different from the major scale in detail (the major scale is in fact more like maqam Ajam). Rast features a half-flat third and a half-flat seventh scale degrees. According to Habib Hassan Touma, maqam rast “evokes a feeling of pride, power, soundness of mind, and masculinity.”

for more information -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makam

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