A study on Anatolian Alevi Bektashi music tradation

This study was carried out as Master's Thesis Study of Haliç University Postgraduate İnstitute, Türkish music Major of Arts. In this study, Anatolian Alevi Bektashi culture which cherishes and transmits rich culture of Turkish society from past to the futurethrough music and poetry, creates important part of Anatolian minstrelsy tradition and resembles the religious systems and practices ofCentral Asian Turkish civilizations was tried to be examined. In the first part of the study, Turkish folk music and its cultural transmission function was studied. Furthermore; Central Asian poets' tradition which forms the basis of Turkish folk music, its sequel which is minstrelsy traditionand its representatives; minstrels/poets were investigated. In the second part of the study, the formation of the music included in sufi music which is about Alevi Bektashi religious values that are musical statement of religious values and cultural accumulation of Anatolian people over centuries and its importance in the tradition of minstrelsy was mainly investigated in a historical perspective. In the final part of the study,the life and musical works of the important representatives of Anatolian Alievi Bektashi music tradition, Ali Ekber Cicek, Minstrel Davut Sularî and Minstrel Daimi who grew up in this tradition were examined. One sample work from each poet about Alevi Bektashi religious values was tried to be examined and inferences were written in the conclusion part. Key Words: Alevi Bektashi, Sufi, Music.