Abstract:

Teke Region music practices are an important part of Turkish culture, as well as a part of the daily life of the people of the region. It is possible to listen to the experiences of the nomads from the past to the present, in the timbre of an instrument or in a voice, and besides, the importance they attach to musical cultures can also be understood from their mastery of playing and singing. There are instruments that have become the symbol of the nomadic culture, one of which is the kabak kemane. It is known that instrument was performed with two and three strings, and today it is commonly performed with four strings. Another symbol of the culture is folk music pieces. When the works in the music repertoire of Teke Region are examined, it is seen that the vocal width of some of them is above an octave. In the performances of the works using the standard kabak kemane tuning, there is a necessity to use positions in the treble regions. Changing the tuning of the instrument to prevent possible problems that may occur when the use of the position will be important for the integrity of the execution. This study is a descriptive study aiming at the performance of Teke Region melodies, whose pitch is above an octave, by applying the tuning system used by the Middle Anatolian Abdals in the violin to the kabak kemane. In this study, in which the scanning model was used, the data were obtained by the document analysis technique. This research is limited to four works in the genres of folk song, teke zortlatması, unmetered folk song and zeybek. The performances of the works were done in detail with the kabak kemane, and it was concluded that the works with a vocal width above one octave could be performed with the specified tuning system.

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