Polyphonic Turkish Folk Music from Black Sea Region

Name of this anonym folk song is "Yavuz Geliyor". 7/8 rhythm.

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[oytuncarsibjk]

they are Turkish

[AnoukMT2]

Very nice... especially their traditional costumes. :)

[TheFriendlyGod]

@TheFriendlyGod Oh you're right for part of it. But it turns into 4/4 somewhere around 1:17.

[hariskrijestorac]

@TheFriendlyGod Nope, it's 7/8 for sure. Try counting it as 2-2-3

[TheFriendlyGod]

is this actually 7/8? I count it in straight 4/4.

[TurkishRose]

@SeXyPrinZ

Speak for yourself please. There are different ethnicities living in the Black Sea region, but this doesn't mean that nobody is ethnically Turkish in that region. You're right about one thing. Being Turkish, Georgian, Circassian or Laz doesn't matter because we're all Turkish and proud of it!

[raifeskinat]

@Thomusic2 Hi. Unfortunately, the "official" efforts in Turkey to develop polyphony has created composers denying the original sound and reducing it to 12 scaled octave. There is no surviving polyphonic culture in Anatolia except Black Sea region, with some georgian influence . However, there are m and m polyphonic works considering to keep the original sound. Try "erkan ogur" and try to find same songs by traditional singers.

Try to find makam in wikipedia. If you need more, I can help you.

[Thomusic2]

@raifeskinat Hi Sir! I found this video by googling ''polyphonic folk music''. I was quite surprised by it, and also by your comment, which I respect. I can imagine that this is far from the 'local' sound. However, I do think that the polyphony has harmony and tonality. It is definitely experimental, for it's composition and speeding up. But it is a quality composition, and a fine performance! Any examples of real Turkish polyphonic folk music? And what is makam? Thanks!

[raifeskinat]

Nice to see but I feel sorry to see that a musical disaster is being exposed as "Turkish" with distorted "makam", "polyphonic" with no attrctive harmony. The music here may be classified as "experimental" only. The over-polyphony here has no charm at all and far from the local "sound" having a "native" polyphonic structure. On the other hand, the composition is too poor to attribute an artistic value to the performance. The only Turkish component is the 7/8 beat.

[love2understand]

FridayNightFilms1 it is very difficult to say where the people of the black sea region come from. The first settlers where Greek. Later they where combined with seltjuks, Russians, armenians, byzantines, persians and people from the Caucas.

[lazchildren17]

Soo beautiful