The Song-Text Collection Named Kâr u Beste ve Semâî at Koyunoğlu Library Manuscript Books Section Number 12970

Abstract

Song-text collections carries a lot of information from various areas of Turkish music in the period which they are written to today. In this way, each of them is an important source of musicology. In a musical learning system based on memory, they became the greatest assistants of musicians. In this study, a song-text collection of the 20th century recorded in the Konya Koyunoğlu Library Manuscripts Section with the number of 12970 was analyzed. The study was conducted with systematic musicology methodology and history methodologies. As a result of this review, the 94 maqams is determined to 573 song-texts, 26 rhythms, 101 composers names with such informations, this song-text collection is thought to be beneficial to other researches.