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Everybody seems to claim ownership (whatever this means in folk music) of this melody, and I really hate that. Once again, an anonymous tune turns into a matter of national pride, into a bitter and pointless fight. The level of disputes is disgustingly low and vulgar. Yes, I am referring to the sophisticated (!) commentary on the so-called social networks about this piece. A warm feeling of righteousness is descending on me: I called this blog "Music of Anatolia ...".
I have known this piece since my childhood. In last decades, it has acquired a merry style in performances, and even has become something that people dance to. However, it is properly a slow tune since it is a lamentation. I remember the slow versions very vividly.
Anyway, I found the following versions in performances:
Turkish: The piece is compiled by Muzaffer Sarısözen(1899 - 1963), a very prolific music researcher, citing the source as Selahattin Mazlumoğlu of Diyarbakır district. This is a quite believable acc
I have known this piece since my childhood. In last decades, it has acquired a merry style in performances, and even has become something that people dance to. However, it is properly a slow tune since it is a lamentation. I remember the slow versions very vividly.
Anyway, I found the following versions in performances:
Turkish: The piece is compiled by Muzaffer Sarısözen(1899 - 1963), a very prolific music researcher, citing the source as Selahattin Mazlumoğlu of Diyarbakır district. This is a quite believable acc
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Lyrics: Orhan Veli (Kanık), (the Wikipedia article I am referring to is uncharacteristically worded very badly. You may have trouble understanding what it is trying to mean). This 20th century Turkish poet was one of the pioneers of a new wave in poetry of his time. Despite his short life, his influence on later generations have simply been immense.
Music: Zulfu Livaneli. Only the master could attempt such an undertaking.
Orhan Veli's poems are quite simple and direct. They form an opposition, a protest to the more embellished, structured, and complicated language of the poetry of his time, and before. Although quite romantic, the objects and themes of his poetry are usually simple and everyday happenings that can happen to anyone. Here is a well known poem of his that exemplifies this fact:
Music: Zulfu Livaneli. Only the master could attempt such an undertaking.
Orhan Veli's poems are quite simple and direct. They form an opposition, a protest to the more embellished, structured, and complicated language of the poetry of his time, and before. Although quite romantic, the objects and themes of his poetry are usually simple and everyday happenings that can happen to anyone. Here is a well known poem of his that exemplifies this fact:
Now that I became drunk,Aren't we sometimes amazed, stupefied at how our left (or right) hand is
I remembered you again:
My left hand,
My clumsy hand,
My miserable hand!
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