Abstract:

Maya is a type that is sung freely in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, with melody patterns that have a certain course and sequence. The aim of this research is to analyze and evaluate Maya Uzun Hava (unmetered folk song) works, which are among the oral works of the Turkish folk music, in terms of the characteristics of their courses. This research is a descriptive and comparative research aimed at determining the melody characteristics of Maya, which is one of the traditional Turkish unmetered folk song genres, and it is conducted with the scanning model. In the study, eighteen Maya were detected in the TRT TFM (Turkish Radio and Television Association-Turkish Folk Music) Uzun Hava repertoire of different regions, and since audio data of one Maya work were not achieved, the study is limited with seventeen Maya works. The thirteen Maya works with a repertoire number and name in the TRT TFM Uzun Hava repertoire, but whose notes were not available, were found and listened to, and the notes were taken by the researchers. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the course characteristics of the Mayas were generally in Hüseyni scale, 13 of 17 works were in Hüseyni, 2 of which were in Simple Gülizar, 1 of which was in Gerdaniye and 1 of which was in Hicaz.

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