Turkish Music Culture

Turkey's cultural history consists of a rich combination of different cultures. Since Turkey lies on the axis of the Eastern and Western cultures you can feel the rythms of both cultures while listening to our music. The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music to influences from Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as references to more modern European and American popular music.

Turkish music can be classified as Turkish folk music, Turkish classical music, Turkish pop music, Turkish rock music, Turkish fantasy music, religious music and jannissary band music.

Turkish Folk Music: Different dialects and forms are performed in

various regions in Turkey. Therefore, sometimes it can be difficult for a Westerner to understand a song that belongs to the East.

Aşık Veysel Neşet Ertaş

Turkish Classical Music:

Turkish classical music dates back to Ottoman times. Its main themes include love, death, sorrow and such bitter and also deep feelings.

Zeki Müren Emel Sayın

Turkish Pop Music:

Popular music is distinguished from the traditional genres such as Turkish classical and folk music.

Tarkan Sertab Erener Hadise

Tarkan is a World Music award winning pop singer who has been nicknamed the "Prince Of Pop" by the media. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 15 million albums sold. Tarkan is one of the very few European artists who has managed to be successful in Russia, Latin America and across the European continent singing in his native language - as well as being a cultural icon in his homeland.

Sertab Erener (born December 4, 1964 in Istanbul) is a Turkish pop star and also a cross-over soprano with a vocal range that extends to high F. She is one of the most successful female Turkish pop singers in her homeland, and is considered one of the divas of Turkish pop music. In Europe, she is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with her hit song "Everyway That I Can.’’

Turkish Rock Music: Known as Anatolian Rock Music, it consists

of a combination of Turkish folk music and rock music.

MOR VE ÖTESİ BARIŞ MANÇO

BARIŞ MANÇOBARIŞ MANCHO was a Turkish rock musician, singer,

songwriter, composer, and television producer.Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the

best-selling and most awarded Turkish artists to date. Many of his songs were translated into a variety of

languages including English, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, and German,

Through his television program, 7'den 77'ye ("From 7 to 77"), Manço traveled the world and visited most countries on the globe. He remains one of the most popular public figures of Turkey.

Turkish Fantasy Music:

Unique to Turkey, it is an oriental-rooted music type. Generally, the lyrics are about desperate and one-sided love, despair and fate.

Orhan Gencebay Ferdi Tayfur

Turkish Sufi music: According to Sufism in Islam, the aim is not to

entertain people but to reach God by means of this music. Sufi music is the vocalization of religious feelings. Sufi music is divine.

According to the Dervishes, the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve.

“Come, come, whoever you are.Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter,Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,Come, come again, come.” RUMI

Janissary Band: Known as also the Mehter, it is the world's

first and the oldest military band in Turkish style. Turkish military music is an indispensable element during the war, very similar to the sound of thunder, and the aim is to discourage the enemy.

Mehter Team

Musical Instruments Unique To Turkish Culture

Bağlama This is the most common stringed

instrument in Turkey.

Ud This is a large-bodied, short-stemmed

stringed instrument played not only in Turkey. It is very similar to the European lute.

Kanun The origins of this instrument date back to

pre-Christianity period, and to the civilisations of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Kemençe The name kemençe is actually shared

by two different stringed instruments, one used in Ottoman music and the other in folk music of the Black Sea region.

Zurna

One of the most important instruments in traditional/local music. The pipe was first made from tree bark, and later panels of copper or brass were added.

Tulum

This is the Turkish version of Scottish bag pipe.

Davul The davul is one of the oldest

instruments, having been used over the ages by various civilisations of Anatolia, and later used by communities in Central Asia.

Darbuka It is a percussion instrument used especially to

add vibrant rythms to music. Similar instruments to darbuka were used by civilisations in Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Central Asia in ancient times.

Major works by worldwide famous composers about Turks.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludvig Van Beethoven

Turkish March Turkish March

The world famous Turkish pianist

Fazıl Say

The world famous Turkish pianist and violinist virtiouses

Suna Kan and İdil Biret

The world-famous Turkish flutist

Şefika Kutluer

Kerem Görsev

The world-famous Turkish pianist

The world-famous Turkish saxophonist

İlhan Erşahin

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