Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor

by Béla Bartók, Benjamin Suchoff, Jake Highton

Book Overview

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bart k's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Y r k Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bart k's introduction includes his annotations of the melodies, texts, and translations and establishes a connection between Old Hungarian and Old Turkish folk music.

Begun in 1936 and completed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617066
• ISBN13: 9780691617060
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"