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Two hours and thirty-four original pieces, from a Thracian wedding night to the snows of Kars and back to Istanbul by night.
Traditions
- Ottoman classical music contributes the peşrev, an instrumental prelude, and the meyhane fasıl, the suite played through a long evening.
- Thracian karşılama is danced in nine beats, grouped unevenly — one of the asymmetric metres that run through Balkan and Anatolian music alike.
- The Aegean zeybek is slow and wide, danced solo with arms outstretched, in a nine-beat cycle of its own.
- On the Black Sea coast the horon is fast and tight, driven by the three-stringed kemençe.
- The âşık tradition of central Anatolia is sung poetry, accompanied by the player's own bağlama.
- In Konya the ney belongs to the Sufi ceremony; in the Taurus mountains the Yörük kaval belongs to the shepherds.
Instruments
- Bağlama — long-necked lute of the Anatolian âşık
- Ney — reed flute of the Sufi tradition
- Kemençe — upright three-stringed fiddle of the Black Sea
- Kaval — shepherd's flute of the Taurus
- Davul and zurna — drum and shawm, the outdoor pair of Urfa and Erzurum
- Oud and kanun — the classical pairing heard in Mardin
Music from here
The story
The written story for this journey is still being set down. The music, the traditions and the instruments above are complete.