MILITARY MUSIC IN MANAS EPIC

Abstract

Epics reflect to culture as a mirror. The Epic of Manas, is the treasure of the wholeTurkish World regarding its historical and cultural value in addition of being asignificant product of the Kirghiz folk-literature. There are Turkish history, traditionsand customs, habits, features of folklore and ethnographic structures in the Epic ofManas. And, also music and music types take place in this epic. Military music is themost used music type in the Epic of Manas.In this descriptive research based on literature review, it has been investigatedseven sources which based on various variants.It has been determined at the end ofthe study that military music used in various situations. These situations have beeninterpreted with examples of Turkish history in this research.