The one detail in the title is footwear: "Kınalıda pabuç giyerler", "in Kınalı they wear slippers", or perhaps "the henna-dyed one wears slippers". Among the eighty-nine songs Haluk Yücel tied to Amasya in 2018, the title appears as a kırık hava in 2/4. Neither its text nor its notation has been printed, and the place and person it was collected from are unknown.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not among the works registered to Amasya in the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Type: kırık hava (Yücel 2018, Table 5)
  • Metre: 2/4 (Yücel 2018, Table 6)
  • Mode (makam): unknown
  • Source performer, collector, transcriber, date of collection: not in the source
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Link: no TRT link; the article in which the title appears

Lyrics

All that survives of the song today is this title; its other lines have not been found in any publication. The first word of the title allows two readings. "Kınalıda" may be a place name with the locative suffix, in which case the line, "Kınalı'da pabuç giyerler", describes a custom of some place. The word may also describe a person; the words then say that someone whose hands and feet are dyed with henna is wearing slippers. Until the words of the song are found, it is not possible to choose between the two readings.

Story

No story attached to this song was found in local accounts or in published collections. As it remains unclear whether the title contains a place name, it is not possible for now to link the song to a village either.

Musical Features

In Yücel's tables the song stands between "Bamiyeyi ekerim" and Kız Pınar Başında Testi Doldurur. Like the first of these it is shown in 2/4; the second, which is in the TRT repertoire, is in the 9/8 column of the metre table. As for makam, Yücel writes that among Amasya songs the Uşşak scale leads with 19 works and Hicaz follows with 17, but he does not show which song is in which scale.

Performers and Recordings

There is no information about who sang the song, or whether it appears on an album or in a radio archive. Yücel's tables give no source beside their rows; the article names the publications it draws on only collectively. For the melodic tradition of the region, The Melody of Yeşilırmak can be read.

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