Almost the same line was recorded in two different places in the summer of 1943, a day apart. On 8 July in Merzifon, Musa Aslan sang a "Yolma Havası (Kavrama)" beginning "Garşıda gördüm seni"; the following day in Gümüşhacıköy, Kazım Aygül gave the disc this folk song, opening "Çarşuda gördüm seni", under the name "Parçalı". Whether the two recordings are two renderings of the same song, or merely two separate songs that open from the same place, cannot be told from the cards. Neither the words nor the notation of Parçalı have been published, and the song never entered the TRT repertoire.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; not registered under the Amasya region in the TRT repertoire
  • Source person: Kazım Aygül; farmer, year of birth on the card Rumi 1318, from the village of Halas in Gümüşhacıköy; "saz" in square brackets in the instrument column
  • Place and date of collection: Gümüşhacıköy (in square brackets in the catalogue), 9 July 1943
  • Collected by: the Ankara State Conservatory team: Halil Bedii Yönetken, Muzaffer Sarısözen, Rıza Yetişen
  • Published source: Celal Volkan Kaya, Ankara Devlet Konservatuvarı'nın Halk Müziği Alan Araştırmaları Kataloğu (İTÜ, 2014), no. 3709
  • Location in the archive: Folklore Archive, disc 1134/B-3
  • Genre: folk song (türkü)
  • Mode, rhythm: not recorded
  • Lyrics and music: anonymous
  • Source link: there is no TRT page; the details are in Kaya's catalogue

Lyrics

The first line that reached the catalogue:

Çarşuda gördüm seni

The line begins with seeing the beloved in the market ("I saw you in the market"); "çarşu" is an old and local pronunciation of "çarşı", market. The "garşı" of the Merzifon recording is a dialect form of the same word in which the initial ç has turned into g; because Sarısözen and his colleagues took care to preserve dialect features when they wrote the words on the cards, both spellings have remained in the record. The second line was not carried over into the catalogue. The song as a whole now exists only in Aygül's voice, on side B of disc 1134, and has no printed text; the card data for the disc, for their part, could be read from the copies in the TRT archive.

Story

What the name "Parçalı" refers to is not explained on the card; whether it points to a person, a dance or the structure of the song is unclear. How the song came to be composed is not told in any publication either. The fact that the name differs by a single letter from Paçalı, the dance tune collected in Amasya that entered the TRT repertoire, cannot be taken beyond coincidence; the 1943 card of Paçalı has no line of words, while that of Parçalı does.

Musical Features

"Saz" is written in square brackets in Aygül's instrument column, and since Kaya enters in this column the instrument held during the collection, it follows that the minstrel played the saz in his recordings; whether the saz was played in Parçalı is not stated separately, and the scale and rhythm of the melody were not entered on the card. A melodic comparison with the "Yolma Havası (Kavrama)" from Merzifon can likewise only be made when the two discs are heard side by side.

Performers and Recordings

Aygül gave the team eight recordings in Gümüşhacıköy on 9 July. On side B of disc 1134, Parçalı comes after his "Mersiye" and "Meyrem Oyunu"; in the repertoire, Meyrem Oyunu bears the title Meryem Suya Gidiyor. From the same session, Güzelleme (Kul Hüseyin'den), Elinde Bıçak Yarim and Ben de Şu Dünyaya are also described on separate pages. One more song in which Aygül is named as source person is in the repertoire: Yazı Yazdım Sokuya. Parçalı, however, we know only from Aygül's voice of 1943. The article that sets the district's folk songs alongside the rest of Amasya's melodies is The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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