1. Turkish Music
Culture
Turkey's cultural history consists of a rich
combination of different cultures. Since Turkey lies on
the axis of the Eastern and Western cultures you can
feel the rythms of both cultures while listening to our
music.
Turkish music can be classified as Turkish folk
music, Turkish classical music, Turkish pop music,
Turkish rock music, Turkish fantasy music, religious
music and jannissary band music.

2. Turkish Folk Music:
Different dialects and forms are performed in
various regions in Turkey. Therefore, sometimes it can
be difficult for a Westerner to understand a song that
belongs to the East.
Aşık Veysel Neşet Ertaş

3. Turkish Classical
Music:
Turkish classical music dates back to Ottoman
times. Its main themes include love, death, sorrow
and such bitter and also deep feelings.
Zeki Müren Umut Akyürek

4. Turkish Pop Music:
Popular music is distinguished from the
traditional genres such as Turkish classical and folk
music.
Tarkan Sertab Erener

5. Turkish Rock Music:
Known as Anatolian Rock Music, it consists of a
combination of Turkish folk music and rock music.
Pentagram
Moğollar

6. Turkish Fantasy
Music:
Unique to Turkey, it is an oriental-rooted music
type. Generally, the lyrics are about desperate and
one-sided love, despair and fate.
Orhan Gencebay Ferdi Tayfur

7. Turkish Sufi music:
According to Sufism in Islam, the aim is not to
entertain people but to reach God by means of this
music. Sufi music is the vocalization of religious
feelings. Sufi music is divine.
“Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of
leaving — it doesn't matter,
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken
your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again, come.”
RUMI

8. Janissary Band:
Known as also the Mehter, it is the world's first
and the oldest military band in Turkish style. Turkish
military music is an indispensable element during the
war, very similar to the sound of thunder, and the aim
is to discourage the enemy.
Mehter Team

9. Musical Instruments Unique To
Turkish Culture

10. Bağlama
This is the most common stringed instrument in
Turkey.

11. Ud
This is a large-bodied, short-stemmed stringed
instrument played not only in Turkey. It is very similar
to the European lute.

12. Kanun
The origins of this instrument date back to pre-
Christianity period, and to the civilisations of
Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

13. Kemençe
The name kemençe is actually shared by two
different stringed instruments, one used in Ottoman
music and the other in folk music of the Black Sea
region.

14. Zurna
One of the most important instruments in
traditional/local music. The pipe was first made from
tree bark, and later panels of copper or brass were
added.

15. Tulum
This is the Turkish version of Scottish bag
pipe.

16. Davul
The davul is one of the oldest instruments,
having been used over the ages by various
civilisations of Anatolia, and later used by
communities in Central Asia.

17. Darbuka
It is a percussion instrument used especially to
add vibrant rythms to music. Similar instruments to
darbuka were used by civilisations in Anatolia,
Mesopotamia and Central Asia in ancient times.

18. Major works by worldwide famous composers
about Turks.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludvig Van Beethoven
Turkish March Turkish March

19. The world famous Turkish
pianist
Fazıl Say

20. The world famous Turkish pianist and violinist
virtiouses
Suna Kan and İdil Biret

21. The world-famous Turkish flutist
Şefika Kutluer

22. Kerem Görsev
The world-famous Turkish pianist

23. The world-famous Turkish
saxophonist
İlhan Erşahin

24. Thank you..