Musical analysis of Safranbolu folk music compiled by Sadi Yaver Ataman

In this thesis, the goal is to show the analysis of Safranbolu Folk Music compiled by Sadi Yaver who is a native of Safranbolu and the fact that he made major compilation works in this region, thus have made significant contributions to Turkish folk music by releasing scholarly and compilation works. In this study, the analysis of folk songs are made by covering their the maqam sequences, tempo structures, volume sonores, syllable structures of lyrics. The folk song that took part in this study called "Aç Kapıyı Ben Geldim" is good example that defines the characteristic features of this region which is analyzed in terms of relation between lyrics and music, genre, form and structure, melody and rhythm. The same folk song was studied in detail in terms of form, melody, rhythm, music and lyrics relationship under the title of "closer look". At the end of the study, the present situation was outlined together with the data obtained from musical analysis. Keywords : Sadi Yaver ATAMAN, Safranbolu, Türk Halk Müziği.