In this song the one being advised is the singer's own heart: "Sana bir nasihat edeyim gönül" (let me give you a piece of advice, my heart). In the tables in which Haluk Yücel classified 89 Amasya folk songs, the name appears as a measured song in the 4/4 column. It closely resembles "Eğlen Sana Bir Nasihat Edeyim", a deyiş registered to Merzifon in the TRT repertoire; Yücel, however, lists the two as separate pieces.

Catalogue Data

  • Repertoire no.: none; under this name it does not appear on the Amasya list of the TRT repertoire
  • Region: Amasya
  • Genre: kırık hava, a measured song (Table 5, p. 380)
  • Metre: 4/4 (Table 6, p. 384)
  • Makam (mode): not given for individual pieces
  • Source person, collector, date: not in the source
  • Words and music: not stated
  • Source publication: Haluk Yücel 2018
  • Link: there is no TRT link; Yücel's article

Lyrics

The lines that would say what the advice is did not enter Yücel's tables and could not be found in any other publication tied to Amasya; the score of the tune is not known either. The one surviving line turns the advice inward, on the singer's own heart.

Its Story

Whose voice it is that advises the heart, and on what occasion the song arose, is not written in any published source.

Musical Features

The marks measured song and 4/4 take on meaning when set beside the Merzifon piece of similar name. Yücel enters "E'len sana bir nasihat ideyim (Merzifon)" as a separate row in the genre table and places it in the 5/8 column of the metre table, whereas "Sana bir nasihat edeyim gönül" sits in the 4/4 column. In the article, then, the two names stand as two separate melodies in two different metres.

Performers and Recordings

No documented performance of this song has been found. The details, words and recordings of the Merzifon deyiş with the similar name are dealt with on a separate page: Eğlen Sana Bir Nasihat Edeyim. For an overview of the region's melodies, The Melody of Yeşilırmak.

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