Küçük Asya'dan Türk halk musikisi. [= Turkish folk music from Asia Minor]. Translated by Bülent Aksoy.

New Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 314, [5] p., b/w plts. Küçük Asya'dan Türk halk musikisi. [= Turkish folk music from Asia Minor]. Translated by Bülent Aksoy. Turkish Edition. This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bartok s autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Yuruk Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bartok s introduction includes his annotations of the melodies, texts, and translations and establishes a connection between Old Hungarian and Old Turkish folk music. Begun in 1936 and completed in 1943, the work was Bartok s last major essay. The editor, Dr. Benjamin Suchoff, has provided an historical introduction and a chronology of the various manuscript versions. An afterword by Kurt Reinhard describes recent research in Turkish ethnomusicology and gives a contemporary assessment of Bartok s field work in Turkey. Appendices prepared by the editor include an index of themes compiled by computer. Originally published in 1976.