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About My Collection of the Folk Music Among Different Turkic Groups About my collection of the folk music among different Turkic groups Since 1936, the oriental researches of Hungarian ethnomusicology were also buttressed by field-work. The three most important on-the-spot investigations were carried out by 1) Béla Bartók in Anatolia, 2) László Vikár and Gábor Bereczki in the Volga-Kama-Belaya region, and 3) by myself in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Anatolia. The successive steps of collecting, transcribing, analyzing, systematizing and comparing as the basic form of scientific elaboration has been characteristic of the collections from the beginning. The extent of the collections’ digitalization, cataloguing and processing is great. The value of the collections and the pertinent scholarly work is largely enhanced by the fact that in the case of some ethnicities the first and sometimes the only scholarly elaboration of their folk music can be found here. These folk music materials and the related studies also provide a good background to the interpretation of the pre-Conquest strata of Hungarian folk music and of its eastern relatives. I have been doing field-research among the Turks of Turkey (c. 3000 tunes), Azeris (600 tunes), Karachay people in the Caucasus and in Turkey (1200 tunes), western and Mongolian Kazakhs (600 songs), Kyrgyz people (1300 tunes), Turkmens (500 songs) and North American Indians (700 songs) as well as in diverse Sufi (Bektashi, Alevi, Takhtaci) communities (700 songs). My investigations are extended to some non-Turkic-speaking groups living in these areas, e.g. Tat, Zakhur, Kurd, Jewish etc. communities (c. 1350 tunes). The majority of these tunes are in video recordings; a considerable part of the sound and video recording of the collection has been digitalized and is still being catalogued. I have transcribed the collected Anatolian, Azeri, Karachay-Balkar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Turkmen tunes and published ample selections from them in the audio and video supplements attached to my books. The books and studies are continuously uploaded on the internet, several being available on MTMT, on my homepage (www.zti.hu/sipos) and on academia.edu. I usually collected alone, sometimes with my wife Éva Csáki. In 1987-93 I collected at my own expense, from 1993 I was supported by western academic grants, from 1999 to this day grants won from the Hungarian National Research Fund OTKA ensured the financial background to my field-researches. 1 The major items of the collection are the following: 1. Turkish (including Sufi Islam), 2. Aday Kazakh and Mongolian Kazakh, 3. Azeri, 4. Caucasian and Turkey-based Karachay- Balkar, 5.Kyrgyz, 6. Turkmen, 7. American Sioux and Navajo Indian collections. About the eastern folk music archive In the large Turkic audio-, video- and photo collection the Azeri, Karachay and Kyrgyz material is representative and unique, but the respective Anatolian Turkish and Turkmen material is also significant. Since I have transcribed the majority of tunes, there is a large collection of Turkic scores also included in the archive. The following digitalized materials can be found in the archive. Signs, explanations Serial number 1-6. = collection among Turkic groups; 7. = collection among North American Indians. Data of fieldwork Place of collecting; name of the collecting researcher or of the collection, (when otherwise not indicated, the item was collected by János Sipos). CD number of CDs and their duration (most of them 1 hour) VIDEO v/h = number of video cassettes/length of recorded material in hours. DAT D/h = number of DAT cassettes/length of recording on the cassette in hours. Catalogue - name of the completed catalogue file or - Prot.&rec. = one that can be made on the basis of protocols/collector’s notebooks. Book, transcription B = a book was written on the basis of the collection, T = I have transcribed the tunes of the recording. Serial Data of fieldwork CD VIDEO DAT Catalogue Book, number transcript ion 1.1 Turkey 120 1.1a. Anatolian collection, 1987– 74 1.1a. Anadolu cat 1988– L, K 1993 1993 1.1b. Muzaffer Sarısözen’s 3 1.1b. Sarısözen cat L collection, Adana, 1938 and 1942 1.1c. Béla Bartók’s collection, 2 Bartók 1976 L, K Adana, 1936 1.1d. from the archive of Konya 8 1.1d. Konya cat L Selcuk University, 1991 1.1e. tunes from students, 33 Prot.&rec researchers, archives 1.2 Turkey, Sufi groups 60v/84h 2 1.2a. Bektashis of Thrace, 1999– 43v/66h 1.2a. Thrace cat L, K 2003 1.2b. Alevis around Ankara, 1989, 3v/ 6h Prot.&rec - 2010 1.2c. Takhtacis around Antalya, 6v/10h Prot.&rec - 1990, 2011 1.2d. Alevis around Eskişehir, 2013 6v/ 6h Prot.&rec - 1.2e. Hacibektaş, Alevia, 2012 2v/ 2h Prot.&rec - 1.3 Turkey, Sunnis 1 64v/62h 1.3a. Malatya, 2011 2v/ 2h Prot.&rec - 1.3b. Trabzon, 2011 5v/ 7h Prot.&rec - 1.3c. Gaziantep, 2006 1 4v/10h Prot.&rec - 1.3d. Burdur, 2011 10v/ 9h Prot.&rec - 1.3e-1 Osmaniye, 2006 18v/16h Prot.&rec - 1.3e-2 Osmaniye, 2007 7v/ 5h Prot.&rec - 1.3e-3 Osmaniye, 2011 3v/ 3h Prot.&rec - 1.3f. Kars, 2014 5v/10h Prot.&rec - 2. Kazakhstan 11 19v/ K 15h 2.1 Almatı, 1995 2 2.1. Kazak Almati cat - 2.2 Aday and Mongolian Kazakhs, 9 1v/ 1h 2.2. Kazak BÖ+mong L cat 1997 2.3. Mangistaw_cat 2.3 Kazakh minstrels 9v/9h Prot.&rec 2.4 Turkestan, 2006 9v/ 5h Prot.&rec - 3. Azerbaijan 12v/18h 15D/22h K 3.1 Azeri video, 1999 12v/18h 15D/22h 3.1. Azeri video cat L 3.2. Azeri DAT cat L 4. Karachay-Balkar 5 22v/36h 9D/14h K 4.1 Karachay-Balkar, 2000 6v/ 9h 9D/14h 4.1. Karacay cat L 4.1. Karacay video cat 4.2 Karachay-Balkar, 2001, 2002 10v/13h Prot.&rec L 4.3 Karachay-Balkar, 2005 8v/16h Prot.&rec L 4.4 Tamara Bittirova’s CDs, 2000 5 Prot.&rec L 5. Kyrgyzstan 46v/32h K 5.1 Kyrgyz, 2002 17v/ 6h 5.1. Kirgiz 2002 cat L 5.2 Kyrgyz, 2004 19v/16h 5.2. Kirgiz 2004 cat L 6. Turkmenistan 2011 8v/19h Prot.&rec L 7. North American Indians 124 27v/30h 7.1 Los Angeles, Dakota, 17v/17h 7.1. Dakota+LA cat - 2004–2005 7.2 Navajo, 2004–2005 10v/10h 7.2. Navajo cat - 7.3 Willard Rhodes’ collections, 124 Prot.&rec L 1941 Fig.1. János Sipos’ audio archive of folk music 3 1. Collections from Turkey The basis of the Turkish collection is my Anatolian collection begun in 1988 and continued to this day. Within the Turkish collection, the following major items need to be mentioned: 1.1a. János Sipos’ seven-year fieldwork in Anatolia in 1987-1993. The bulk of this collection is material from the southern areas populated by Turkmen tribes as well, but it includes tunes recorded in other regions e.g. along the Black and Aegean seas, Inner Anatolia, etc. The academic elaboration of the material is advanced, the overwhelming majority of the tunes are transcribed. I have published five books and several articles related to the recorded tunes. The archive contains 9 CDs on which a selection of tunes can be heard in the order presented in János Sipos: Turkish Folk Music I-II. The CDs and the books Turkish Folk Music I-II provide a reliable summary of several strata of Anatolian folk music. The collection has been catalogued and digitalized. The catalogue is in an Excel table format, and the words of several songs have also been written down. Temporary marks of the CDs containing Anatolian folk music include János Sipos’ collection of 1987-1993: SJ 1-57; summary CDs: ezgi 1-9; catalogue: Cat_Anatolia 1988-1993. Field-research is still going on in Turkey. 1.1b. Muzaffer Sarisözen’s collections around Adana in 1938 and 1941. The noted Turkish folk music researcher Muzaffer Sarisözen collected music in 1938 and 1941 in the area where Bartók did field research in 1936 and I have done several times after 1987. In the collection several of Bartók’s former informants are included, and the quality of his recordings is far better than Bartók’s. Sarisözen’s collection around Adana was put at my disposal by Professor Ahmet Yürür, then deputy director of the Hacettepe Conservatory in Ankara. In 1990 I transcribed the tunes and published a part of them. The temporary marks of the CDs containing the material are: SJ 75-78, Catalogue: Cat_Sarisözen. 1.1c. Bartók’s Anatolian collection. The detailed description of the material with scores and analyses can be found in different editions of Bartók’s Anatolian collection, e.g. in Bartók (1976). 1.1d. Tunes from the archive of Konya Selcuk University. With permission from Professor Saim Sakaoğlu, rector of Konya Selcuk University, I copied 260 laments, uzun hava (plaintive) song, lullabies, dance tunes as well as interviews from the university archive. This remarkable pool contains mostly freely performed tunes from different parts of Turkey, most of them laments, hence they are very valuable, although the quality of the recordings is not perfect. I put down the words of the tunes, and transcribed and analysed the tunes. Temporary marks: SJ 67-74, catalogue: Cat_Konya. 4 1.1e. Tunes from pupils, researchers, other Turkish archives. During my stay in Turkey I received folk music materials from the Ankara Radio, some university archives, my students in Ankara, researchers collaborating with me, acquaintances, etc. This stock includes Turkish and minority (Kurd, Laz, etc.) tunes from different parts of Turkey. A detailed catalogue is made of the recordings, but the majority of the tunes are not yet transcribed.
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