Editing Dimitrie Cantemir (section)

== Musical works ==
A few of Cantemir's roughly forty Ottoman compositions are still performed today as part of the Turkish repertoire, but his greatest service was in preserving 350 traditional instrumental pieces by publishing them in a musical notation he developed from the [[Ottoman Turkish alphabet]] in his work ''Edvar-i Musiki'', offered as a present to [[Ahmed III|Sultan Ahmed III]] in 1703 or 1704 and recently reprinted with modern explanations.<ref>''Kantemiroğlu, Kitâbu 'İlmi'l-Mûsiki alâ Vechi'l-Hurûfât, Mûsikiyi Harflerle Tesbit ve İcrâ İlminin Kitabı'', [[Yalçın Tura]], Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul 2001, {{ISBN|975-08-0167-9}}. {{in lang|tr}}</ref>

In 1999, the [[Bezmara]] ensemble recorded ''Yitik Sesin Peşinde'' ("In Search of the Lost Sound") from the Cantemir transcriptions using period instruments.<ref name="bezmara">{{cite AV media notes |title    = In Search of the Lost Sound |year     = 1999 |author   = [[Bezmara]] |type     = album booklet |publisher= [[Kalan Müzik]] |location = Istanbul |id       = EAN 8691834003576 }}</ref> His compositions, those of his European contemporaries and Moldavian folk music of the period were explored on ''Cantemir'' (Golden Horn Records, 2000) performed by [[İhsan Özgen]] and the Lux Musica ensemble under [[Linda Burman-Hall]]'s direction.<ref name="Lux Musica">{{cite AV media notes |title    = Cantemir: Music in Istanbul and Ottoman Europe around 1700 |year     = 2000 |author   = [[Lux Musica]] |type     = album booklet |publisher= [[Golden Horn]] |location = Santa Cruz, CA }}</ref> Seven of Cantemir's compositions were also featured on [[Hespèrion XXI]]'s 2009 ''Istanbul'', under the direction of [[Jordi Savall]], with focus on Cantemir's “Book of the Science of Music”.<ref name="Hesperion XXI">{{cite AV media notes|title    = Istanbul – Dimitrie Cantemir |year     = 2009 |author   = [[Hespèrion XXI]] |type     = album booklet |publisher= [[Alia Vox]] |location = [[Bellaterra, Spain|Bellaterra]] }}</ref>