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Music accompanied by words can be classified under the following headings: Türkü (folksongs), Koşma (free-form folk songs about love or nature), Semai (folk song in Semai poetic form), Mani (a traditional Turkish quatrain form), Dastan (epic), Deyiş (speech), Uzun Hava (long melody), Bozlak (a folk song form), Ağıt (a lament), Hoyrat ...
List of Turkish Folk Music anonymous songs, songwriter uncertain (anonymous music), in accordance with the Turkish folk music (Turkish: Türk Halk Müziği) songs list. Songs [ edit ]
Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Greek, Armenian, Albanian, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others. [2] Many Turkish cities and towns have vibrant local music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles.
"Köçek troupe at a fair" at Sultan Ahmed's 1720 celebration of his son's circumcision. Miniature from the Surname-i Vehbi, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul.. Kaşık Havası (Turkish: Kaşık Havası, lit. spoon tune) or Kaşık Oyunları (Turkish: Kaşık Oyunları, lit. spoon dances; Greek: Χορός κουταλιών) are folk dances mostly spread over the Mediterranean region and have a ...
The instrument became a folk instrument of the poor and of ethnic minorities in Turkey, including Rûm, Armenians, Jews, Kurds, and Romani, "playing indigenous folk music or repertoires shared with ethnic Turks." It was excluded specifically by classical musicians of the era, being seen as lower-class or ethnic.
After the 1970s, Turkey Anatolian blues or Turkish blues music is a type of music that is a combination of Turkish folk music and blues . [ 1 ] Yavuz Çetin , [ 2 ] Asım Can Gündüz and Can Gox are the most known singers and musicians in Anatolian blues music.
Balıkesir zeybek dance Extension and distribution of folk dances in today's Turkey. The zeybek is a form of Turkish folk dance particular to Western, Central and southern Anatolia in Turkey. It originates from two ancient Greek dances, the Dionysiac and the Pyrrhic, and it is named after the Zeybeks. [1] In Greece, the dance is known as Zeibekiko.
Horon with kemenche Children from Turkey perform folk dance Horon ( Pontic : χορόν , romanized: khorón ; Laz : oxoronu ) is a group of traditional folk dances from the Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey .