Antalya Elmalı Tekke Köyü Bektaşilerinin Müzik Pratikleri ve İnanç Bağlamlı Sözlü Ezgileri

Abstract

This research aims to determine the beliefs related to the musical practices of the Alevi and Bektashigroup who living in the Tekke village of Elmali district of Antalya province and also determine theplace of these melodies in the ritual. The cultural heritage of the Tekke Bektashi’s has been kept alivein a rich festival of faith-related melodies dimension, and also the lack of a work about musicologyin the past years on this heritage has prepared an environment for us to investigate.The data in the field study were collected using participant observation, interview techniquesand documents. Visual and auditory recording devices and observation notes were used duringobservation and interviews, and literary texts on existing written materials about Tekke village andacademic documents were created for other research documents. In the analysis of the data, audiovisualmaterials are dictated and information which not related with the research purpose is extracted.The field research which started on November 10, 2016 lasted for one year and on the basis of theresearch, two peculiar semah, one duvaz-i imam folk songs were compiled. Besides the places andfunctions of these works in the cem, the concepts and facts related to the ritual music of the TekkeBektashis and the instruments the Bektashis used in the ‘’cem’’, the features of the safety responsiblefor the music in the cemetery explained in this study.