The tradition
Kaşık Havası (Turkish: Kaşık Havası, lit. spoon tune) or Kaşık Oyunları (Turkish: Kaşık Oyunları, lit. spoon dances; Greek: Χορός κουταλιών) are folk dances mostly spread over the Mediterranean region and have a varying structure of their arrangement, performance, rhythmic, and melodic characteristics. They are always rendered with wooden spoons and the characteristic measure is 24 or 44. The instruments used are beast bow (later violin), baglama and clarinet, in general, they are accompanied by folk songs.¶
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Kaşık Havası is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
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Sources
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| Wikidata: Kaşık Havası (Q6381954) | database | Wikidata |
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