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He wrote the first modern account of Turkish classical music available in a Western language ("La Musique turque", in Encyclopedie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire, Premiere partie, Paris, 1922 (written in 1913)). His emphasis in this encyclopedia was on intervals, modes and rhythms and quotes some 73 musical examples.Present day theory of Turkish classical music is the result of collaboration by Yekta with Dr. Suphi Ezgi(1869-1962) and H. Sadettin Arel (1880-1955).
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