Furthermore, in the beginning of 19th century, there was a big tendency to establish, spread and nominate the New Method of Byzantine musical notation in the Greek Orthodox churches of Istanbul as well as to the rest of the Greek communities in the Ottoman Empire. However, it was not only a matter of performance but of composition as well. How did the early 19th century musicians perform the 17th century and early 18th century compositions39? Finally, those transcriptions bring the Efterpi musical collection in front as a great primary source to which academicians could acquire much knowledge about the early 19th century musical conventions. Thus, the Greeks tried to compete Hamparsum musical notation by publishing plenty of Ottoman music compositions in the New Method notation in music collections such as Efterpi.
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