A review of Bitlis song

Folk Song are oral products of folk literatüre. Whenever there was an event that deeply affected society, people hugged and sang folk instruments. Although the instruments used over time have changed, folk songs have always existed. The folk songs that have been passed down from generation to generation have also been the carriers of the legacy of the societies. Many data about the life of that society can be obtained by looking at the folk songs of a society. In this study, the folk songs of the TRT Turkish Folk Music Repertoire and other sources of Bitlis region were examined literally and classified according to folklore methods. Since no scientific study gathering Bitlis folk songs has been carried out until now, the first aim of our thesis is to carry out such a study. In addition, it is the source of other studies to be carried out on this subject by classifying the folk songs of Bitlis region. In our study, eighty seven folk songs were reached by scanning TRT Repertoire, printed and digital resources. In addition to bringing together all the folk songs that we can reach from the Bitlis region, Bitlis folk songs were classified according to their characteristics, shapes and structure. The scattered texts were brought together. At the beginning of our study, necessary information about folk songs was given, texts were ordered, and our study was completed with dictionary and index study