1. TURKISH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

2. KANUN ( King) Its sound range is from three and a half to eight. The performer sits on a chair and lays the kanun flat on his knees, playing it with small ivory plectra placed on the index fingers of both hands. Recently, some experts have played the instrument on a small table to produce a denser sound. UD (Queen) Ud İs accepted as the queen of classical Turk music ınstruments. Ud and Kanun are coherrent instruments. They are a good pair together. Some Turkish Musıc Instruments

3. Kudum is a small double kettle drum with the copper cup covered in camel or sheep skin and played with a pair of sticks called "Zahme".

6. OTTOMAN MEHTER BAND

7. Examples from Turkish music

8. Famous Turk Musicians

9. Famous Turk Pianists İdil Biret

10. Summary of the presentation In this presentation we mainly focused on this topics Some Basic Turkish Music Instruments Some examples from Classical Turka Music Ottoman Mehter Band Famoous Artists and composers in Turk Music and Turkish Folk Music Famoous Artists and composers in Turk Music and Turkish Folk Music Some examples from Turk Folk And Pop Music

11. Turkey, rich in musical heritage, has developed this art in two areas, Turkish classical and Turkish folk music. When describing Turkish music today it is generally said that Ottoman composers availed themselves of the rich musical heritage found in the cultural centers of the Abbasid and the Timurogullari, where Turkish, Araband Iranian musicians performed and created music known as Ottoman court music. This music was based on mode and human voices.

12. Through the centuries many instruments have been used in Turkish music, such as the ud, tanbur, kemence, ney, kanun, kudum, bendir, def, halile, lavta, santur, rebap, musikar, cenk and sinelkeman.

13. UD TANBUR

14. KEMENÇE NEY

15. KANUN KUDÜM

16. BENDİR DEF

17. HALİLE LAVTA

18. SANTUR REBAP

19. Turkish music is also graded under the four headings below: 1.Non-religious music (with or withoutwords), 2.Military music, 3.Mosque music, 4.Islamic mystic music.

20. Turkish music is also graded under the four headings below: 1.Non-religious music (with or withoutwords), 2.Military music, 3.Mosque music, 4.Islamic mystic music.

21. Non religious music and dances are different according to the regions of Turkey.These are folk dances of every region.We have seven geographical regions but several folk dances from the parts of Turkey.And these are the examples: