Bade koydum fincana is one of three melodies among the folk songs of Amasya written in a ten-beat metre. In Haluk Yücel's list of 89 songs only three rows are marked in the 10/8 column: "Dem be dem garşıma" from Merzifon, "Kar kalmadı Amasya'nın dağında" and this song. The table of genres places it among the kırık havas; beyond that the article says nothing of it.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not under the Amasya region in the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Genre: kırık hava
  • Metre: 10/8
  • Makam: not in the source
  • Source person, collector, place and date of collection: not given
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel, Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 22 (2018), Table 5 (p. 380), Table 6 (p. 383)
  • Location in the archive: unknown
  • Link: there is no TRT link; PDF of the article

Lyrics

Bade koydum fincana

"Bade" is an old word of Persian origin meaning wine; the seven-syllable line says "I poured wine into the cup", and its continuation is not found in published sources. Neither the full words of the song, nor its score, nor the whereabouts of a sound recording could be established; in his tables Yücel gives only its title and two marks.

Story

No published tradition or record tells who poured the wine, or on what occasion the song was made.

Musical Features

The ten-beat metre is rare in the Amasya repertoire: in Yücel's table 2/4 and 4/4 fill dozens of rows, while 10/8 is left with three. Bade koydum fincana stands in the table between two songs in 4/4, with "Eşimden ayrıldım yamandır hâlim" from Merzifon before it and "Kuş Köprü başının gülleri" after it. The inner structure of the metre, that is, into which smaller units the ten beats divide, and the melody's scale are not shown in the article.

Performers and Recordings

One of the three 10/8 melodies, Dem Be Dem Karşıma Gelen Bülbül, is a Merzifon song that entered the TRT repertoire. Both of this song's neighbours in the table have pages of their own: Eşimden Ayrıldım Yamandır Hâlim and Kuşköprünün, collected in 1943; whether the latter is the same melody as Yücel's "Kuş Köprü başının gülleri" is not certain. For Bade koydum fincana, however, Yücel shows no album or singer, and no performance of it is documented in any other source. The folk songs of Amasya as a whole are the subject of The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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