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The '''''saz semai''''' (also spelled in Turkish as ''saz sema'i'', ''saz sema-i'', ''saz sema i'', ''saz semaī'', ''saz semâ'î'', ''sazsemai'', ''saz semaisi'', or ''sazsemaisi'' and in the Arab world as ''samâi'') is an instrumental form in Ottoman classical music. It was typically the closing movement of a ''fasıl'' (i.e. suite). The saz semai is metered and typically uses the usul (rhythmic structure) called ''aksak semai''.
A saz semai is typically in 4 movements, called ''hane'' (lit. "house"), each movement followed by a ''teslim'' (refrain). The ''teslim'' and the first three ''hane'' are usually in rhythm structure 10/8, unlike the fourth ''hane'' which is usually in 6/4, 3/4, or 6/8.
==Common Saz Semaisi==
Some Saz Semaisi are very well-known and played in the all makam music area (From Greece to Iraq, and from Iraq to Morocco).
Here a few of them :
*Semâi al Thakil - also called : Arap saz semai. This samai is in makam Bayati. *Semâi Al-Aryan - also called : Samâi Bayati. *Semâi Shad Araban - Sed-i-Araban Saz Semaisi. Composed by Tanburi Cemil Bey. *Semâi Husseyni. Composed by Tatyos Efendi. *Semâi Nahawand - Nihavend Saz Semaisi. Composed by the son of Tanburi Cemil Bey : Mesut Cemil (Son of Cemil Bey).
==Saz Semai's Composers ==
*Tanburi Cemil Bey was a noted composer of ''saz semai''. *Ismail Hakki Bey *Misirli Ibrahim Effendi
==See also== *Sama'i *Yürük semai *Arabic Maqam *Turkish makam
==Bibliography==
*Walter Feldman : "Music of the Ottoman court : Makam, composition in the early Ottoman instrumental repertoire"; Intercultural Music Studies, 1996.
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101213014639/http://www.iktmo.com/index_eng.html ''Saz semai'' page] *[http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/turkishforms.html ''Saz semai'' page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727194617/http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/turkishforms.html |date=2017-07-27 }}
Category:Music of Turkey Category:Turkish words and phrases Category:Forms of Turkish makam music Category:Forms of Ottoman music
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