TURKISH MUSICAL

INSTRUMENTS

 KANUN ( King)

Its sound range is from three and a half to eight. The performer sits on a chair and lays the kanun flat on his knees, playing it with small ivory plectra placed on the index fingers of both hands. Recently, some experts have played the instrument on a small table to produce a denser sound.

 

UD (Queen)

Ud İs accepted as the queen of classical Turk

music ınstruments.Ud and Kanun are coherrent instruments. They are a good pair together.

Some Turkish Musıc Instruments

KUDUMKudum is a small double kettle drum with the copper cup covered in camel or sheep skin and played with a pair of sticks called "Zahme".

NEY

The Ney is an important instrument in Classical Turkish Music and especially in Mevlevi Music which  adopted the Ney as their main instrument in the Sema

 

A snapshot from Sema

OTTOMAN MEHTER BAND

Examples from Turkish music

Famous Turk Musicians

Famous Turk Pianists

İdil Biret

Summary of the presentation

• In this presentation we mainly focused on this topics

Some Basic Turkish Music InstrumentsSome examples from Classical Turka MusicOttoman Mehter Band Famoous Artists and composers in Turk Music and Turkish Folk MusicSome examples from Turk Folk And Pop Music

Turkey, rich in musical heritage, has developed this art in two areas, Turkish classical and Turkish folk music. When describing Turkish music today it is generally said that Ottoman composers availed themselves of the rich musical heritage found in the cultural centers of the Abbasid and the Timurogullari, where Turkish, Araband Iranian musicians performed and created music known as Ottoman court music.

This music was based on mode and human voices.

Through the centuries many instruments have been used in Turkish music, such as the ud, tanbur, kemence, ney, kanun, kudum, bendir, def, halile, lavta, santur, rebap, musikar, cenk and sinelkeman.

UD

TANBUR

KEMENÇE

NEY

KANUN

KUDÜM

BENDİR

DEF

HALİLE

LAVTA

SANTUR

REBAP

Turkish music is also graded under the four headings below:

1.Non-religious music (with or withoutwords),

2.Military music,

3.Mosque music,

4.Islamic mystic music.

Turkish music is also graded under the four headings below:

1.Non-religious music (with or withoutwords),

2.Military music,

3.Mosque music,

4.Islamic mystic music.

Non religious music and dances are different according to the

regions of Turkey.These are folk dances of every region.We have seven geographical regions but

several folk dances from the parts of Turkey.And these are the

examples: