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From Dede Korkud's Kopuz To Love's Kopuz In Ottoman Poetry
Author(s) -
Neslihan Koç Keskin
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of turkish studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1308-2140
DOI - 10.7827/turkishstudies.257
Subject(s) - poetry , literature , art
Beyond being a musical instrument, kopuz, has been a friend to shaman, baksı and singer in Turkish society before and after the Muslim world and undertaken many functions. Being one of the fundamentals of Turkish mythology, kopuz has been identified with Dede Korkud and also appeared in stories. In this paper, 12 kopuz repeated word lyrics have been analyzed in terms of content, information has been given about the charecteristics of kopuz and where it was played with the help of the couplet samples from self-contained works like poems with rhymed couplets and the characteristics of kopuz in Dede Korkud Stories and Otoman Poetry have been compared.

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