"Kulluk benim olsun, sultanlık senin", "let servitude be mine and sovereignty yours", is a sentence of surrender: the speaker keeps servitude for himself and assigns sovereignty to the one addressed. In Haluk Yücel's 2018 classification the song falls among the kırık havas, and its metre mark is 8/8; only four works in the table carry that mark. Neither its words nor its notation have been printed.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not among the Amasya entries of the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Type: kırık hava (Yücel 2018, Table 5)
  • Metre: 8/8 (Yücel 2018, Table 6)
  • Mode (makam): not given
  • Source performer, collector, transcriber: unknown
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Link: no TRT link; the article on which the data rest

Lyrics

Neither the full words nor a score can be given here, because not one line beyond the title has been published. The title is built like a line whose two halves answer each other: servitude and sovereignty, "mine" and "yours". Such words could be addressed to a beloved, or to God. Which of the two the song turns to cannot be settled while the remaining lines are unknown.

Story

A tradition might have told to whom the surrender is offered, but no such account has been published. Since it is not recorded from which village or from whom the song was collected, no trace remains that would tie it to an event.

Musical Features

The other works marked in the 8/8 column of Yücel's metre table are Dostun Bahçasına Girsem from Merzifon, Dağdan Kestim Çınarı from Taşova, and "Esmer güzelleri gelip, geçerken", which is marked in both the 4/4 and the 8/8 columns. This song stands in the table between the rows "Âdem Havva'yı yarattı" and "Selâm verdik, kadem bastık bu yere". The article contains nothing to show which scale it is sung in; the makam table gives only totals.

Performers and Recordings

No singer or source performer of the song is documented. Yücel writes that he identified the eighty-nine songs through a review of the literature and the views of folk music specialists; the publication or person on which this song rests, however, is not shown in the article. The general article describing the region's tradition of folk songs and long airs: The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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