Abstract:

Kocaeli is a province that stands out both with its geographical location and social, economic and cultural life. Koceli's work is very important in terms of music culture. For this purpose, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality and Kocaeli University in partnership with “Kocaeli folk songs to compile work", Dr. The faculty member Gülşen Erdal was led and co-ordinated. As a result of this study, the ones who completed the notations of the local folk songs were submitted to TRT institution for examination and registration with application no.382910 dated 29.11.2013. Within the scope of this study, 12 newly compiled Turks were included in the year 2017 from various districts of Kocaeli province. In the compilation, the songs that were sung in various districts of Kocaeli, together with the songs that were not collected before, were different from the lyrics of the songs that were sung in different provinces of Turkey, but they were also found to have different variations of the melodies, despite the similarity of the melody or the similarity of the lyrics. There are references to the socio - cultural and economic values in the region, the professions and economic conditions determined by the geography of the region. In this study, the words about the daily lives of the Native people of Kocaeli, “women-mouthed folk songs” were compiled. Although the rhythmic structures of the melodies have similarities with the existing Kocaeli songs in the TRT repertoire, they also have different rhythmic structures. It was determined that women accompanied the melodic structures with the “darbuka”, which they used as percussion instruments for the folk songs, by strengthening the melodic structures with rhythm and singing the melodies. It is aimed that these new folk songs, which were collected and recorded in this minvalde and which are a cultural bridge from the past to the future, be brought to Kocaeli's cultural heritage and TRT repertoire. For this purpose, musical analyses were made to determine the musical form characteristics of the songs which were analyzed from musical point of view.

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