Kûçek

Kûçek is a makam with few surviving works; only sixteen are recorded in the TRT repertoire. In the old twelve cycles, Zirefkend stands in its place. In the fifteenth century, Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi records that the Rum called Zirefkend "kûçek". A recent study compares edvâr manuscripts and argues that Zirefkend turned into Kûçek over the centuries, but because so few works survive, it refrains from a firm verdict. We could not find a source that describes Kûçek's scale, so we do not give it here.

In the list attributed to al-Fârâbî, Kûçek is given sorrow and grief. In the account attributed to Safiyyüddin, Zirefkend is also "the note of sorrow". Şuûrî gives Kûçek no hour and no gathering. He finds it suited only to the temperament of fair-skinned people. To Zirefkend, held to be its ancestor, he assigns the last third of the night. The voice of sorrow, the quietest hour before sleep.

Sources: The Zirefkend-Kûçek relationship and the number of works: Esra Berkman and Duygu Taşdelen, "Makamların dönüşümünün tarihsel ve kuramsal izleri: Zirefkend'in Kûçek'e dönüşümü", Rast Müzikoloji Dergisi, 11/3 (2023), 395-423. Its name among the Rum, and sorrow and grief: Kalender, AÜİFD XXIX, 362, 365. The sorrow of Zirefkend: Akdoğan, AÜİFD XLVIII/1, 80. The fair-skinned and the hour of Zirefkend: Şuûrî, Turabi edition, 165-166.