Bir Gonca Femin Yâresi
Composer: Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (1778–1846) · Lyricist: Hammamizade Dede Efendi
Bir Gonca Femin Yâresi is a composition by Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi: makam Beyatî, form Beste, usul Hafif.
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After the loss of his son
Dede Efendi’s first son Sâlih died in 1805 at the age of three, a year after the death of his sheikh Ali Nutkî Dede. It is told that Dede Efendi gave voice to this grief in this bayâtî beste, whose lyrics he also wrote. In 1810 he also lost his second son Mustafa. The year the beste was composed is unknown. Its first line[1, 2, 3]:
Bir gonca-femin yâresi vardır ciğerimde
gonca-fem: rosebud-mouthed, a beauty · gonca: an unopened rosebud · yâre: wound
What do the sources say?
- In the documents: from 1853 on, the piece appears in lyric anthologies and in a 19th-century manuscript in Hamparsum notation as Dede Efendi's bayâtî beste; these sources say nothing about its subject.
- In the biographies: that the beste is an elegy for his son Sâlih, who died in 1805 aged three, and that the lyrics are Dede Efendi's, first appears in Rauf Yektâ's 1924 book; Yılmaz Öztuna (1987) and TDV (2001) repeat it.
- Added later: the label "the first personal work in Turkish music"; it has no scholarly source, and composed elegies existed long before this piece.
- Unknown: the year of composition; the date and present state of the gravestone at the Yenikapı Mevlevî lodge (its inscription is known only through Öztuna's account).
Lyrics
Bir gonca femin yaresi vardır ah ah ciğerimde efendim Ah ah ah aman beli şahı men hey canım Her lahza hayali duruyor ah ah ah didelerimde efendim Ah ah ah aman beli şahı men
Terennüm: Yel lel la yel lel li yel lel lel lel lel li
Meaning
Recordings
- Savaş Ş. Barkçin, Ali Sarıgül, Emre Erdal, Halil Uğur Kutlu & Yavuzhan ErdemBir Gonca-femin · Can Sesi Aşk Nefesi · 2010 · 3:23Classical kemençe: Emre ErdalTanbur: Yavuzhan ErdemBendir: Halil Uğur KutluNey: Ali SarıgülVocals: Savaş Ş. BarkçinSearch on YouTube
- Doğan DikmenBir Gonca Femin Yaresi Vardır Ciğerimde · Darül-Elhan Külliyatı · 2011 · 6:26Violin: Kemal CabaCello: Uğur IşıkKanun: Bekir Reha SağbaşOud: Ömer ŞatıroğluVocals: Doğan DikmenSearch on YouTube
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Notation and playback data: Miras-ı Saz (AEÜ accidentals, comma precision) · adapted from (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-commercial use): SymbTr · Work data: MusicBrainz · License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: share with attribution, for non-commercial use and under the same license.