TÜRKİYE’NİN TEK ERMENİ KÖYÜ VAKIFLI KÖYDE DİNSEL MÜZİK UYGULAMALARI
RELIGIOUS MUSIC PRACTICES IN TURKEY'S ONLY ARMENIAN VILLAGE VAKIFLI

Summary/Abstract: In this study, religious music practices in Surp Asdvadzadzin Church in Vakıflı village, which is the only Armenian village in Turkey, were examined culturally and structurally. It is aimed to create scientific literature by examining and analyzing the structures of faith music made in Vakıflı Village from a cultural and formal point of view, and to reveal the social and cultural contexts of the vision of Vakıflı Armenian Village faith music. The Armenian people in the Vakıflı Village of the Samandağ district of Hatay province, which has different ethnicities, are affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. The repertoire of faith music performed during the services in the Armenian church in the village is performed in various forms. The musical performance of other prayer and hymn texts (Badarak, Sharagan and Sharagnos), which constitute the ethnology of faith music in the village of Vakifli, is sung solo, the choir accompanying the solo, only the choir and the call and response between the father and the choir. The traditional rituals of the region are used in the rituals held with the five basic feasts and the commemoration days of some saints. These special days are "Gaghund", "Bızdağ Zadag", "Surp Sarkis", "Dardanas", "Vartanants", "Pargindınk", "Dzarzartur", "Mindz Zadag", "Hampartsum", "Vartivur", "Khaghigi Zadag", "Khiçen Zadag" "Serpagip". Apart from these special days, another area where faith music is used is birth, wedding and death ceremonies. In this study, ethnomusicology research methods were used to examine ethnomusicological approaches in the perspective of ethnology of belief music. Within the scope of the field research, he participated in the services in the church in the village as an observer and interviewed the mugannis, especially the father of the church, and the local people. The focus of the study is the understanding of the history and demographic structure of the village of Vakıflı in the Musa Mountain region and the religious music of the Armenian Orthodox

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