Anadolu Ağitlarinin Türküleşme Süreci Ve Üç Ağit Örneği
The Process of Being Turkish Folk Song of Anatolian Elegies and Three Elegy Examples

Summary/Abstract: The elegies are invaluable works which take the place in cultural world of humanity since the starting of Human History. Composed of both literature and different musical works, elegy is of not only nationalistic features but also universal understandigs. The word of Elegy is directly associated with the meaning expressed as “crying”in a lot of world languages. The elegies are both literary and musical and sociologic documentaries reflecting social structure of societies. As well as expressing of various elements of life styles societies, the elegies harbour a lot of properties such as language, religion, history and traditions of nations. One of the most important features of the elegies is that they have comfortive effect both during their performance and after performance. People provide a spirutual discharge by means of elegies following to a dead person. Even if performing elegy seemed like a rebellion of People against the death, all these cries or elegies prepares a ground for new contstrection of family regulation and soothing of the spirit in the last moment. The tradion of expressing the elegy in Turkish Society has been performed with know application. The tradition of Elegy in the old ages of the history has been continuing with very little change. The elegies don’t stay as they were said first. The elegies adopted by society have been gone far away by repating of the society again and again. Like every musical work, the elegies as regards their melodies have undergone to the changing considerably with their initial forms. The elegies are very emotional works as regards their melodies. Parallel to the change of the society in time, the elegies also might lose their emotional features. Even this change occurs so rapidly that an emotional elegy can transform into rithmic dance. Three examples of the elegies we tried to show here with their notes, it has been abserwed that the elegies of Anatolia have changed in time.

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