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Heard

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre heard.

Turkic military music

practice · 6th century–14th century

Also called tuğ, Inner Asian military band, kös and zurna processional

Inner Asian and Turkic processional war music: kettle-drums (kös), outdoor shawm, and noise as a sovereignty sign (tuğ). Empty extra Received is historically checked. The tuğ is a steppe sovereignty sign; Persianate naqqāra / ṭabl-khāna is a neighbor court job, not a parent, and the hop from Persian court music is refused. Known from chronicles and later Ottoman practice more than from a surviving playlist. This is the kit and job parent of Ottoman mehter. Empty extra Given is historically checked. European janissary fads leftover as later Ottoman reception, not children of this node. It is not a garden janissary fad.

Listen

  1. Tuğ processional (reconstructed type) Turkic military tradition (medieval type)
  2. Kös drum signals Inner Asian military tradition (medieval)
  3. Zurna and davul outdoor pair West and Central Asian processional tradition (long traditional)

Passed on

Ottoman mehter practice · 14th century–1826

The Janissary band is the Ottoman name for an older Inner Asian job: loud shawm-and-drum processional as the ruler’s presence.

Influence

Turkic military music → Ottoman mehter

instrumentationfunction and contexttimbre and productionmeter and groovestrength: highscholarly consensus1300–1450patronageoralmigration

Mechanism

The Janissary band is the Ottoman name for an older Inner Asian job: loud shawm-and-drum processional as the ruler’s presence. Strength high for kit and function. European “Turkish music” is the later export, not this parent.

Evidence

Tuğ and kös as sovereignty signs; zurna/davul outdoor pair; Grove on Janissary music as an Ottoman crystallization of Turkic military practice.

Debate

How much of the classical mehter repertory is early-Ottoman versus later palace arrangement. Consensus: the kit and the job are the hop; 1826 reconstructions are not the object. Persianate naqqāra is a neighbor court job, not a second parent of the mehter.

Mediators

institution: Early Ottoman army and palace