Meşk ile intikalde müzik eseri: III. Selim’in Suzidilara Mevlevi Ayini

A teaching system –namely meşk–has been evolved in Ottoman-Turkish music by transferring the musical repertoire via mentorprotégé relationship, and several attempts have been made in designing new musical notation systems. Sheikh Nasır Dede of Yenikapı Mevlevihanesi invented a notation system which was commanded by the composer and the reedflute player Sultan Selim III. Nasır Dede notated the Suzidilara Mevlevi Ayini of Sultan Selim III in Tahririye (1794) in which he describes his ebced notation he invented. This is the first Mevlevi ritual composed in that period of time. The aim of this article is to make a close examination of how a composed Mevlevi ritual in the eighteenth-century has been transferred to the twentieth-century via meşk system and to examine the changes that have been made. The eighteenth-century transliteration of Suzidilara Mevlevi Ayini and the other three transliterations of this ritual published in twentieth-century, i.e. Darülelhan, Ali Rıfat Çağatay and Sadettin Heper, are examined by comparison in chronological order. While the selams, meters and the number of measures of these Mevlevi rituals have been located, the melodic similarities and differences between them have also been considered. In this respect, the role of meşk in the musical alterations will be considered.