The music folklor of Harput, Elazığ

Harput which is one of the oldest provinces of the Turkish in Anatolia, is a special region from the angle of the music culture. The fronts of the chairs, vineyards, gardens, rocks and heads of the pools are the traditional stages in the hearts of the singers of the region. The music of Harput, has a different richness in the Turkish music by its music interments, tunes and the rules during the execution. Each tune has a ode, rustic and broken tune. The passing between these tunes are also related to some rules. The words are in the front plan in the Harput music as the other regions. Since the music intruments were not permitted for Muslims in the region, most of those who were involving with music were Christians. The persons who were conducting the Harput folk songs, songs and long tunes songs were among those who were coming from orators. In this work, scientific comments to be mede by researches are aimed in the subjects of the roots of Harput music, structure and execution. But, the subject is limited with the repertory of Enver DEMİRBAG who is the best execulors of the Harput music in our time. Nearly 1 13 pieces of Harput and Elazığ folk songs are researched together with their various execution and with their musical notes. At the end of these researches, the folk songs of Elazığ and Harput are used in 10/8 rules between 100 and 1 19 metronome with one octane voice wide and in the tunes of Uşşak and Hüseyni where the 4. and 5. voices are strong.