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Haydar Haydar is a well known traditional mystical Turkish folk song. The lyrics of the song come from "a poem by 17th century Alevi-Bektashi poet Kul Nesîmî that vocalizes an internal struggle with God."
Sama'i (also known as usul semai) is a vocal piece of Ottoman Turkish music composed in 6 8 meter. This form and meter (usul in Turkish) is often confused with the completely different saz semaisi, an instrumental form consisting of three to four sections, in 10 8 meter, or usul aksak semai (broken semai in Turkish).
Torkian composes music and plays several instruments, including the Iranian tar, the Turkish saz, and the GuitarViol, an electric guitar-like instrument that uses a bow and is adapted from a 14th-century instrument. [2] Several of the lyrics in his songs draw on or include traditional Middle-Eastern prayers, songs or chants. [3]
The video game Civilization VI's theme song for Arabia is based on Ya Banat Iskandaria. Iranian artist Farya Faraji's "Aπό ξένο τόπο & Üsküdara Giderik'en" [32] (2023) is an arrangement of the song featuring both Greek and Turkish lyrics as well as Greco-Turkish instrumentation.
Music accompanied by words can be classified under the following headings: Türkü (folksongs), Koşma (free-form folk songs about love or nature), Semai (folk song in Semai poetic form), Mani (a traditional Turkish quatrain form), Dastan (epic), Deyiş (speech), Uzun Hava (long melody), Bozlak (a folk song form), Ağıt (a lament), Hoyrat ...
Veysel's opinion that folk music was intrinsically and inseparably connected to the land even extended into Turkish music played on Turkish instruments, by Turkish musicians; once asked to listen to another musician play a folk song on the saz, Veysel commented that whilst the song was still beautiful, it had been removed from its homeland in ...
Hekimoğlu (English: The Ballad of Hekimoğlu) is a popular Turkish türkü (folk song) in the musical modal Chahargah with a rhythm of 4/4. Although the TRT archive lists Ümit Tokcan as the source under the repertoire number 110, Ümit Tokcan himself says that the folk song was actually compiled by Kadir İnanır.
He also had instrumental Oud and Solfeggio training from Irfan Ozbakir, a Turkish composer. In 1982 Sinan was encouraged by his tutors to apply to the Istanbul Academy of Music , where he was accepted in the Department of Turkish Classical Music in 1982, where he studied until he finally graduated from the academy in 1988.