Bar (dance)
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Bar is a Turkish
Eastern Anatolia, especially in Artvin, Ardahan, Erzurum, Bayburt, Ağrı, Kars, and Erzincan provinces. The characteristic of their formation is that they are performed side-by-side, hand, shoulder and arm-in-arm. Woman and man bars are different from one another. The principal instruments of bar dances are davul and zurna (shrill pipe). The dominant measures in bars are 5
8 and 9
8. Occasionally measures of 6
8 and 12
8 are also used. Aksak 9
8 measures which are the most characteristic measures, in particular, of the Turkish folk music
are applied with extremely different and interesting structures in this dance.
8 and 9
8. Occasionally measures of 6
8 and 12
8 are also used. Aksak 9
8 measures which are the most characteristic measures, in particular, of the Turkish folk music
A famous song of Bar is called 'Atabarı'.
References
- ^ "Folk Dance of Turkey". www.memphistours.com. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
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