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For more than 600 years, the Ottoman or Turkish Empire governed much of the Mediterranean and Western Asia. As relations with Christian Europe ebbed and flowed, Ottoman culture left a huge impact on the arts. This week on Harmonia, join us as we listen to some of the ways this relationship played out over the centuries.

In the latest episode of Ethercast, Christopher Burrus introduces you to an 18th-century instrument that feels like it came from the 1980s. Listen here!