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1925 — Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Paperback. Illustrated covers with portrait of Ismail Hakki Bey and borders. Art-nouveau illustrated borders on frontispiece. Taped and repaired spine. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 158, [2] p., musical scores. In contrary of the tradition of Ottoman book printing, this is numbered from right to left. Ismail Hakki Bey was a Turkish composer, musician and educator during the Ottoman Empire. The Society of Ottoman Music was founded by Ismail Hakk' Bey in March 1909 at the flat above the Fevziye Coffehouse. Ismail Hakki Bey, while he was the president and director of the Ottoman Society of Music, applied to the Ministry of Education to have a permit to open a private music school. After the permission was granted, The School of Ottoman Music, (1910-1920), the first private music school in the Ottoman State, was inaugurated on January 5th 1910. This book includes his teachings of solfege and musical scores with scores mostly. Lithograph. Roumi: 1341 = Gregorian: 1925. Second Enlarged Edition. Özege 18193.