BAĞLAMA EĞİTİMİNDE POPÜLER MÜZİK ESERLERİNDEN YARARLANMA: ORHAN GENCEBAY ÖRNEĞİ

Obviously, popular music is a kind in which innovations of the age could be found in concrete form. Out of these innovations, characteristics such as level and technique of performance and also musical style and attitude of performer are valuable resources and they can be benefitted in instruction of musical instruments. The ones who are putting forward these characteristics are of course the performers who have high levels of performance. Orhan Gencebay, one of these paramount performers, has a wide instrumental variety and technique in his compositions which all he created by himself, has an innovative approach which is not completely disconnected from the traditional, employs western performing style, has richness of tone and scale and reflects these properties to his compositions. With the aim to bring in new techniques and different performance styles, through the research, four musical creations of Orhan Gencebay which may give support to baglama instruction were musically analyzed. As the result of these analyses, the four compositions were presented as resources of practice to baglama instruction. Also skills which may be gained were specified.