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Contents 1 Problems 1.1 Organization 1.2 Content 1.3 Conclusion

[edit] Problems

[edit] Organization

The article has a very poor organization. I added in the beginning an interior link to a list of makams and am intending to give information about each of them with lists of compositions and remarkable improvisations. Please bear it mind while reorganizing it.

[edit] Content

• All pictures are scanned from the same book (Türk Musikisi Nazariyatı ve Usulleri - Kudüm velveleleri), with captions in Turkish! I do not believe that this meets Wikipedia standards. Tables should be recreated with English notes when necessary. This information is INACCESSIBLE to English-speakers.
• This is NOT the proper place to give information about the Turkish sound system. A separate article should be created, here only suggesting the existence of such a system.
• Wikipedia in English is intended for international use. In this article, the relationship of the Turkish makam with the Arabic maqam, the Persian dastgah, Pythagorean Greek modes and Central Asian pentatonic music should be given. Many maqams and dastgah bear the same name as in Turkish or have a different name but the same structure. I propose a joint project on specialist in Balkan, Persian and Arabic music to give an accurate picture of where Turkish makams stand.

[edit] Conclusion

I propose a joint project with Maqam and Dastgah discussion pages where specialists of Turkish classical music may meet those of Arabic and Persian music for a start and that they take the responsibility of improving each other's makam/maqam/dastgah pages by inserting links and furnishing brief comparisons. The same goes for the List of Makams I created for Turkish classical music. I'd be happy to see there links to maqams and dastgahs bearing the same name. In the now-empty links to individual makams on the List of Makams page, I intend to give historical indications about each, where maqam and dastgah contributions would be very valuable. Ekindedeoglu 09:00, 21 May 2007 (UTC)