Download or read book Music of the Ottoman Court written by Walter Feldman and published by Handbook of Oriental Studies. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography, to present a synthetic picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music from the early 17th to the mid-18th centuries.