The title "Koyun geliyor, koyun da", "the sheep are coming, and the sheep too", resembles a line broken off at the closing "da"; what was going to be said next is missing from the title. The song is named only in Haluk Yücel's 2018 study, among eighty-nine works tied to Amasya. Yücel counted it as a kırık hava and put it in the 2/4 column of his metre table. Its words, notation and catalogue data have reached no publication.

Catalogue Data

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

Lyrics

Not a single line beyond the title has been printed. The title itself can be read in two ways. "Koyun" may be the animal of the flock; the line then announces the arrival of the flock. The word also has the meaning "bosom, embrace". Only the rest of the song could show which is meant.

Story

As neither the place of collection nor the source performer is recorded, there is nothing on which to tie the song to a village or community. No tradition of its making has been published either.

Musical Features

In Yücel's table the 2/4 metre comes second after 4/4 and covers seventeen works. The song is one of the rows in the table with no district written beside the title; before it comes Çakallar'dan İner Vermiş Kömürü, which is in the TRT repertoire, and after it "Esmer güzelleri gelip, geçerken". Since none of the tables gives the makam song by song, its scale is unknown.

Performers and Recordings

The name of a singer or source performer appears in no source. The method section of the article lists its sources together; whether this song was taken from a record or from a book cannot be traced from there. Amasya's melodies, both those registered with TRT and those that are not, can be surveyed together in the general article.

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