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Kaşık Havası (Turkish: Kaşık Havası, lit. spoon tune) or Kaşık Oyunları (Turkish: Kaşık Oyunları, lit. spoon dances; Greek: Χορός κουταλιών) are folk dances mostly spread over the Mediterranean region and have a varying structure of their arrangement, performance, rhythmic, and melodic characteristics.[1][2] They are always rendered with wooden spoons and the characteristic measure is 2
4 or 4
4. The instruments used are beast bow (later violin), baglama and clarinet, in general, they are accompanied by folk songs.[3]
References
- ^ "14_Turkish Spoon Dance - International Office | Hong Kong Baptist University". intl.hkbu.edu.hk. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ "KASIK HAVASI DANCE - TURKEY". Dance Ask. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Seeman, Sonia Tamar (2019-06-12). Sounding Roman: Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-994925-0.
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