Re: Turkish makam

[Hans Åberg]

> On 15 Jan 2023, at 14:45, Adam Good <goodadamgood@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.