BELA BARTOK’UN ANADOLU’DA YAPTIĞI DERLEME ÇALIŞMALARI

Abstract

Composer and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok, who came to Turkey in 1936 in order to hold conferences and studies on Turkish folk music, researched.both the relationship between Turkish folk music and Hungarian folk melodies and the roots of the similarities between the music of the two countries, which are thought to come from the same root and got interesting and valuable information. He made field studies in certain regions of Turkey, compiled the folk songs in the areas he worked, notated the songs which he compiled and then classified these folk songs. In addition to her field work, she also worked with important musicians such as Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Necil Kazım Akses, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, whom we know as Turkish fives today. Throughout all his studies in Anatolia, he said that there were both similarities and differences between Turkish and Hungarian folk music, but he argued that the two musical cultures emerged from the same root. One of the most important theses he defended was that he said that Hungarian music culture was a clear Turkish music culture and that the motifs in Turkish melodies were seen in Hungarian music. Keywords: Bela Bartok, Turkish folk music, Hungarian folk music, Cultural transfers and similarities, Pentatonic