ANALYSIS OF HENNA FOLK SONGS WHICH ARE SITUATED TURKISH RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION TURKISH FOLK SONGS REPERTORY IN TERMS OF THEIR RITM

Abstract

It was aimed to point out the characteristics of rhythm scales for henna folk songs which are situated in TRT Turkish folk songs repertoire. In the framework of this main purpose, it was identified their general characteristics by analyzing folk songs in henna night in terms of their rhythm scales. During this research, documentary survey method was used. Repertoir of TRT Turkish Folk Music constitutes the population of research. The sample group is 75 henna folk songs in repertory of TRT Turkish Folk Music. It was determined that 75 henna night songs in the repertoire of Turkish folk music consisted of 44 joint rhythm scales in the proportion of 58. 6 percent, 13 folk songs with basic rhythm scale in the proportion of 17.4 percent, 10 folk songs with mixed rhythm scale in the proportion of 13.3 percent, 8 folk songs with multi rhythm scale in the proportion of 10.7 percent. This study explored joint rhythm scales were most prevailed among henna night folk songs and as for multi rhythm scale, this proportion was at least. It found out that Henna night folk songs in Turkish folk music repertoir of Radio and Television Council (TRT) comprised of 30 folk songs with 9/8 rhythm scale in the proportion of 40 percent as well as 6/8, 8/8, 9/4, 12/8, 13/8, 15/8 rhythm scales in the proportion of 1.3 percent. In addition, 8 henna night folk songs were multi rhythm scale in proportion of 1.3 percent.