Musicographical

Two of his works have been crowned, his Bibliographie générale des Gaules by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres, and his musicographical collection, with a translation of the Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle, by the French Academy.

Oransay left behind his private archives, Turk Kiig Belgeligi, which is considered the largest collection of theoretical treatises, manuscripts, musicographical and biographical works in Turkey.

The Roman world never produced theoreticians as great as those of ancient Greece: the musicographical works of the Latin authors are very heavily indebted to the Greek thinkers, whom they did not, however, always understand.