VERBAL FORMULAS IN ERZURUM REGIONAL FOLK SONG: FORMULAS

Abstract

The subject of this research involves formal expressions, which are oral formulas, in folk songs from the Erzurum region included in the TRT Türk folk music repertoire. One of the elements that strengthen the narrative in epics, folk tales, and fairy tales, considered major genres within folk literature, is formal expression. All literary works, and especially folk culture products, serve as a mirror reflecting the emotions, thoughts, dreams, and attitudes of the people who created them. It is always possible to encounter traces of historical experiences in this mirror. Folk songs hold a particularly important and distinct place among folk culture products. Folk songs not only express beliefs, traditions and customs, value judgments, developments that cause joy and sorrow, and the helplessness of humanity, but also reveal an artistic and aesthetic understanding through the harmony between words and melody. Like all folklore, folk songs derive their origins from the people. Traditions, customs, traditions, and customs, etc., are implemented alongside certain religious practices. Social norms reveal the cultural treasure and memory of a society. Folk songs, one of the primary products of oral tradition, play a significant role in transmitting a society's shared cultural awareness from generation to generation. When the folk songs in the TRT Repertoire are examined from a verbal perspective, certain unchanging elements are evident. It has been determined that certain patterns are used as formulas in the creation of the folk lyrics. This is thought to be a result of the folk song-writing process, which the people employ during the creation of the folk songs, a tradition they call "selling the master's goods."