USE OF DANCE MUSIC IN THE VOCAL REPERTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

Abstract

Music has always been at the centre of human life. Word and dance accompanied the music and became the companion of the music. The different moods of human beings are expressed with dances and folk dance; happiness, grief, enthusiasm and special feelings…At the same time, the dances were accompanied by music and strengthened the expression of the movements and movements of the dancers.

Folk dance music is performed with or without instrument accompaniment, mostly with vocal accompaniment. While creating works - opera, symphonic work, chamber music, instrumental works - the composers also tended to dance music and tried to reflect the atmosphere, character, gestures and elasticity of dance or walking movements in their works.

Along with the development of music throughout human history, new instrumental and vocal form shave been included in the creativity of composers. Thus, the composers used dance in symphony, opera and musical works, and they also kept dance musical live by creating vocal works. Waltz, tarantella, bolero, menuet, polka, habanera, tango and seguidilla etc. we know from dances. Singing works were created in these genres.

The aim of this study; the aim is to give a brief historical over view of dance music in classical music vocal repertoire and to present it with a concert by showing examples of the use of dance music. In the study, the vocal repertoire in which dance music was used wastried to be scanned by using the source scanning method. As a result, it has been concluded that dance music, which makes a great contribution to the music culture of the future by taking it spower from folk music, has an important place in the classical music vocal repertoire and new melodies are born by gaining continuity with lively and impressive forms.