Music in Yıldız Palace: Era of Abdülhamid II
Department
of Publications
Name
of the Book: Music
in Yıldız Palace: Era of Abdülhamid II
Author, Editor,
Translator, etc.: Nihat ERGİN
Type: History-Music
Printing: 1st
Edition
Printing Year: 1999
Subject No.: 780.9561015
Number of Pages:
XI, 252 pages; picture
Size: 24
cm
Publication
No.: 2267
Name of Series: Series of Ottoman Works
Series No. :
12
ISBN: 975-17-2133-4
Number of Printed
Copies: 3000
Price: TL.1.300.000.-
Content
A book written
for the purpose of examining manuscripts of musical compositions belonging Abdülhamid-II
,devoted to the Palace and found in the Library of Yıldız Palace; such subjects
as musical life of Abdülhamid and his family, “Mızıka-I Hümayun” in the period
of Abdülhamid, Musical Events in the Theatre of Yıldız Palace, Collection of
Library of Yıldız Palace, our first State Opera, History of Polyphony in Turkish
Music, with documents in Ottoman language, sections in musical life in the Palace
and its environment in the era of Abdülhamid-II have been presented.