Turkish Makam Influences in Jazz Improvisation

Meriç Çalışan

About this exposition

Improvisation, the art of creating at the moment, is the main reason that I started singing jazz. It allows me to express my musical thoughts, while being the biggest struggle in my musicality. I was suggested by many of my mentors and colleagues that my ideas were nice but needed to be connected. These artistic needs introduced me to taksims, improvisations based on melodic development. In this research, I demonstrate how elements such as phrasing and melodic development can be integrated into vocal improvisation of jazz and arranged folk songs by analysing selected pieces in hicaz and huseyni makams. In this context, the recordings from Refik Fersan, Salim Bey, Andon Efendi, Cemil Bey and Tanrıkorur analysed and the stylistic elements implied into my daily practice with exercises. These exercises made my improvisations more solid and consistent by prioritizing melodic development. My findings, i.e. exercises and technical explanation, will help musicians, particularly vocalists who would like to apply the makam practice into their improvisation skills. By application of this process their musicianship will profit from the linear melodic approach, odd meters and the technique.

type	research exposition
keywords	jazz improvisation, makam, makam influence in jazz improvisation, vocal improvisation, hicaz, huseyni, phrasing, melodic development, glissando, structure, sarki, pesrev, semai, arranged folk songs, jazz pieces
date	08/06/2020
published	09/06/2020
last modified	09/06/2020
status	published
affiliation	Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
copyright	(c) Meric Calisan
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language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/926083/926084
published in	Codarts
portal issue	Codarts Artistic Research Reports.
external link	www.codarts.nl

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