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Dance tune

Oyun havası

A melody played to accompany folk dances and dancing, usually instrumental and lively. Zeybek, horon, halay, çiftetelli, köçekçe, longa and sirto are varieties of this genre.

Example pieces from the archive (27 in total)

Dök Zülfünü Meydana Gel · Tanbûrî Mustafa Çavuş
Hicaz Mandra · Lavtacı Andon
Nikrîz Zeybek (No 2) · Tanbûrî Cemil Bey
Benli'yi Aldım Kaçaktan · Hammâmîzâde İsmâil Dede Efendi
Yabandan Geldim Yabandan · Muallim İsmail Hakkı Bey

Dance tune 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 (27 in total)

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