LEGENDS ABOUT THE CREATION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS in TURKISH CULTURE

Abstract

Human beings have attributed different meanings to the musical instruments theycreated according to the different conditions of the era and society in the field ofinstrument making which is one of the first areas enabling them to show theircreative power. They have knitted the musical instrument’s design with acosmogonic and mythological symbolicity ranging from celestial to earthly anddemonic to divine. With these qualities musical instruments have been subjected tomany oral cultural products like fairy tales, epic narratives and folk songs. Creationlegends are also the narratives which treat the musical insturments in terms of theircreation. In this article, legends about the creation of musical instruments in Turkishculture were examined and handled under different titles with a classificationaccording to their thematical commonalities.

Özet

İnsan; yaratıcı gücünü sergilediği ilk alanlardan olan çalgı yapımında, ürettiği