GÜLAY KUTLU

     1. HAVA İKMAL BAKIM                 MERKEZİ İLKOKULU

HALKALI ŞEKER (Ring Candy) SONG

Ring candy is a kind of candy made by kneading it by hand while the candy is in the form of hot dough, and decorating it with colored strips.

 In the past, it was distributed in cafes to announce that the promise was cut to the young people who were going to get married. Ringed Candy is a folk song about a boy wanting to marry the girl he loves. In Turkish, the young boy is in love with the girl If you love me don't wait too long Take your bundle and say go. He asks those around him to go and tell that he is longing for that girl and that he is on the couch because of his troubles. In Turkish, it is also the name of Eskişehir. It is mentioned about the Kalabak creeks and the ephesies of Kırka district who played Zeybek dances unique to Eskişehir.

              ESİN BİÇER

KARAPINAR İMAM HATİP                ORTAOKULU

BURSANIN UFAK TEFEK TAŞLARI

DUSHANKA JOSHEVA

Folk songs from Kavadarci

Nikola Badev was born in Kavadarci on August 8, 1918. He has recorded more than 400 songs. Nikola Badev in the songs captured the true spirit and melody of the Macedonian original folk song.

Oh dear Maro, girl

Oh dear Maro, girl

exit to port,

i just walk upstairs, downstairs

to see you.

I can not, I can not

let me go out

my mother, my father,

they do not give me.

Oh dear Maro, girl

exit to port,

let it be both of us

Let's take it.

Let it be the two of us

we take,

together we both,

life to live.

        TAMER SAVAŞ

                       Osman Zeybeği

Naci Kum gives this knowledge about “Köstüklü Osman Efe”

    Osman Efe ,from a villlage of Yalvaç,Köstük,lived in the 19th century.Osman Zeybek was not a bandit as it is thought.He could not put up with the sultanate administration so took his weapon and rode his horse to the mountains.

     He joined to the “Derviş Ahmet”s gang and become famous around Konya and Isparta region.He defeated gendarme soldiers sent to catch him and turned into a nightmare fort the government.

    But he was arrested in a village of Akşehir and sent to Konya prison.He died there because of a fire from a gendarme’s weapon.

    Traditional folk songs indicate us the popularity of him among the community. It can be said that he was the "Robin Hood"of Anatolia.

     “Osman Efe” is also known as “Genç Osman”. Hüsnü Yüksel conveys the following information from his elders;

       “Osman Efe used to stop the most stingy rich people in this town, share their belongings and donate their goods to the poor. Many people used to live with his help. Everyone in our hometown loved him except the rich.

                       Anonymous/ISPARTA

                  MAURIZIO ZAMMARTINO 

                                                 ICS "RomeoCammisa" Sant'Antimo - Naples - ITALY                                                               

                   "O sole mio"

Among the many symbols of the city of Naples there is the sun, which helps to make the reality of Naples even more fascinating and evocative in the eyes of tourists, who come from all over the world to admire it. And all this is even clearer and clearer if you think of one of the most famous Neapolitan songs in the world, or "O'sole mio", it has been performed and covered by many artists.

The Neapolitan song became a formal institution in the 1830s due to an annual song-writing competition for the Festival of Piedigrotta, dedicated to the Madonna of Piedigrotta.

The Neapolitan music was popularized abroad by performers such as Enrico Caruso, who took to singing the popular music of his native city at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the early 1900s. Many other songs, became part of the standard repertoire for operatic tenors, and which were performed and recorded by such notable singers as "The Three Tenors" (Pavarotti,Domingo,Carreras) also performed popular songs from Naples.

An important factor in defining what makes a Neapolitan song is the matter of language. All these songs are written and performed in the Neapolitan language. Although the music is sung by many non-Neapolitan singers, it is difficult to sing correctly without knowledge of the Neapolitan dialect, which is crucial in obtaining the correct inflection.                                                 

        NAZLI AĞDIK

        İSTAŞ KENTAŞ           SECONDARY SCHOOL

I CAN'T EAT OLIVE OIL

Emine is the doughter of a rich and contented man. The landlord doesn't have a son and he is a widow. He raises his doughter Emine coyly because of her matherlessness. So Emine becomes a spoiled child and she becomes a snob person who doesn't like anybody or anything. When she grows up, she throws out the candidates who want to marry her and she disgraces her father. The landlord stipulates her doughter to find a solution to this situation. Either Emine will bring someone to marry or her father will marry her to someone he wants. Emine already expects Murat, whom she has been in love with for a long time, to marry her. But Murat doesn't want to marry her, he doesn't love her. All he wants is her money. One day Murat promises her to marry and takes her jewels and gets lost. So Emine feels depressed and alone. But she has to find a groom for herself because she promises her father. An idea comes to her mind. She decides to tempt Mustafa who works at her father's farm. Mustafa is valiant and honest man. One day Emine tells him to come and get permission from her father for marriage. Mustafa who already loves Emine asks permission from her father for marriage and the landlord gives the permission. 

Emine doesn't like Mustafa but she has to marry because of her father's will. Then they get married and move to Mustafa's village. It is hard for Emine. Because of her father's wealth she lives comfartably before marriage. She doesn't know how to do housework. However Emine starts to love Mustafa overtime and she learns how to do housework, how to milk a cow, how to grow vegetables. Emine, who can't eat olive oil and wear simple dresses, has changed because of Mustafa's love.

"W moim ogródecku" it's a typical folk song
oryginated from the Mazowian region. It's a
LOVE story about Maria (Maniusia) and John
(Jasiek) and Maria's mother who tells Maria
       to take care of the horse, garden and farm.

  PAULINA NOWACKA Szkoła Podstawowa nr 279 Warsaw in Poland