The Music Of Turkey Power Point)

THE MUSIC OF TURKEY Núria Mestre i Farràs

INFLUENCES The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from: • Central Asian folk music • Music from Ottoman Empire:  Persian music,  Balkan music  Byzantine music.

SITUATION • Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures: Europe  Nortch Africa The Middle East The Caucasus South and Central Asia

ROOTS • The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across centuries to a time when: • The Seljuk Turks colonized : • Anatolia

in the 11th century • Persia  Contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences.

THE DIVERSITY • With the assimilation of immigrants from various regions : • The diversity expanded of instrumentation

- musical genres - musical

• Turkey has also recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Armenian, Greek, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others

THE PROGRESS OF THE MUSIC • Western-style, lost popularity in the late 70s and 80s. • It became popular again of the 1990s.  The late 1990s producing alternative Turkish rock, electronica, hip-hop, rap and dance music

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