> On 15 Jan 2023, at 14:45, Adam Good <goodadamg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hans and Werner, > For a couple reasons, I deliberately used the name turkish-makam.ly to make > a distinction and clarity between the Arabic and Turkish varieties of > (respectively) maqam and makam theory and notation systems. Also I do have > ideas for another .ly file in the future turkish-usul.ly which will give > defintions for rhythmic aspects of Turkish classical music. "Usul" is > basically the rhythmic equivalent in study and theory to "makam". The two > files would conveniently live right next to one another in the ly > directory. And the usul file will be large enough that I'd much rather not > use that material in the turkish-makam file. > > Though I'm forever grateful for the original makam.ly include file. I'd > much prefer to use the name turkish-makam.ly and could easily see makam.ly > simply disappear for the next release. turkish-makam is a huge upgrade.
As the full number of Turkish makam is very large, perhaps too many to have in this file, there might be a turkish-makam-extended for the less common ones.
