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Lullaby

Ninni

A folk poem, usually in quatrains, sung to a particular melody to put a child to sleep or to soothe it. It is usually anonymous; there are also composed examples, such as Tanbûrî Cemil Bey's “Dağda tavşanlar uyur”.

Example pieces from the archive (1 in total)

Dağda Tavşanlar Uyur · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey

Lullaby works in the sheet music archive

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The definitions were written in our own words, drawing on sources such as the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Yılmaz Öztuna's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Music and Wikipedia; pitch and interval values follow the Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek system. This content has not yet been reviewed by an expert; if you spot a mistake, please write to us.

TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi

Yılmaz Öztuna, Türk Musikisi: Akademik Klasik Türk San'at Musikisi'nin Ansiklopedik Sözlüğü, Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara, 1990.

H. Sadettin Arel, Türk Mûsikîsi Nazariyatı Dersleri (haz. Onur Akdoğu), Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, Ankara, 1991.

Vikipedi, “Türk müziği” maddesi.

Example pieces from the archive (1 in total)

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