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Alaturka
Alaturka, the Turkish pronunciation of Italian alla turca, names the makam-based music of the Ottoman and Turkish tradition; it became pejorative and was banned from Turkish radio in 1934.
Alevi music
Alevi music is the repertoire of Alevi religious and cultural life, centered on the bağlama lute, with deyiş songs and semah ritual dances performed in the cem.
Anatolian rock
Anatolian rock, also called Anadolu pop, is a Turkish music movement of the 1960s and 1970s fusing Anatolian folk music with Western rock, led by Erkin Koray and Barış Manço.
Halay music
Halay, called govend in Kurdish, is a collective line and circle dance-music genre of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Anatolia, performed to davul and zurna at weddings and festivals.
Horon
Horon is the characteristic linked circle dance of Türkiye's eastern Black Sea coast, especially Trabzon and Rize, danced hand in hand to the rapid kemençe or tulum bagpipe.
Mehter
Mehter is the Ottoman military band tradition of the Janissary corps, known in the West as Janissary music, abolished in 1826 and revived in the 20th century.
Roman havası
Roman havası is the 9/8 dance music of Turkey's Roma communities, played on davul, zurna, and clarinet, centered in Thrace and performed above all at weddings and street festivities.
Turkish classical music
Turkish classical music, also called Turkish art music (Türk sanat müziği), is the makam-based art music that developed in the Ottoman court and dervish lodges.