The title reads like a curt answer to someone asking after one's trouble: why do you ask me about my trouble. It appears on two rows of Haluk Yücel's study of the words and music of Amasya's folk songs, among the kırık havas in the table of types and among the 2/4 works in the metre table. That is all that has been printed; the words, the notation and the source performer are unknown.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; there is no work of this name under 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 shown in the source
  • Source performer, collector, transcriber, date of collection: none
  • Words and music: anonymous
  • Link: no TRT link; Haluk Yücel's article

Lyrics

In present-day Turkish the eight-syllable title means "why do you ask me about my trouble". The other lines could have explained what the trouble is and to whom the question is put; but the full words of the song have entered no collection, and its notation has not been printed.

Story

No story has been recorded about who the troubled speaker was. As it is not known from whom the song was collected, whether such a story lives on in the region cannot be traced either.

Musical Features

Yücel defines the kırık hava as a melody sung in a set measure and metre, distinguished from the long airs by its rhythmic balance and not resting on improvisation. Of the 89 works he separates by this definition, 80 are kırık havas, and "Ne sorarsın derdim bana" is one of them. In the metre table it falls in the two-beat 2/4 column. In the tables it stands between "Acı badem dalları" and "Kar kalmadı Amasya'nın dağında". Its scale is uncertain, since the article gives the makams as bare totals with no song titles.

Performers and Recordings

No singer's name, record or TRT recording is known. Yücel names the sources from which he gathered the songs in general terms at the start of his article, but gives no separate source for this work. The region's other songs are described under the title The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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