HASAN UÇARSU’NUN “ESKİ İSTANBUL’UN ARKA SOKAKLARINDA” İSİMLİ ESERİNDEKİ ALINTILARI KULLANMA YÖNTEMİ

Well-known contemporary composer Hasan Uçarsu used quotations from the traditional Turkish Music in his composition named “On The back Street of The Old İstanbul”. The piece was composed for clarinette in-b, percussion, harp, violoncello and traditional Turkish Music instrument; qanun. These quotations has been chosen from Yorgo Bacanos and İsmail Dede Efendi who are two well-known figures of traditional Turkish Maqam Music. First quotation is from Bacanos’s Nihavent taksim for ud. These motifs appeared frequently along the A and B sections of the piece. Second quotation is from İsmail Dede Efendi’s Hüzzam Mevlevi Ayini-Birinci Selam. 1-2, 7-8, 35, 36, 41, 42, 45, 46, 51, 52. usuls (measures) of Ayin has been used at the C section of the composition. These quotations mostly has been played by qanun. However, the other instruments accompanied qanun as playing some parts of the quotation. The motifs from taksim usually has been used in a very dense structure. The instruments played these motifs with various rhytmic patterns. However, the quotations from Ayin has been used in less dense structure. Towards to end of the piece the rhytmic density has been gradually diminished. So that, Uçarsu created a contrast between the beginning and the end of the piece.