Kaşık Havası

Kaşık Havası, Kaşık Oyunları (Turkish, meaning spoon rhythm and spoon dances, respectively, owing to the use of pairs of wooden spoons as a musical instrument) are Turkish 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 2/4 or 4/4. The instruments used are beast bow (later violin), baglama and clarinet, in general, they are accompanied by folk songs.

Turkish dance regions:
Hora - East Thrace
Zeybek - Aegean, Southern Marmara and Middle-eastern Anatolia Region
Teke - Western Mediterranean Region
Kaşık Havası and Karşılama - Western Central Anatolia, Western Black Sea, Southern Marmara, Eastern Mediterranean Region
Horon - Central and Eastern Black Sea Region
Halay - Eastern Anatolia and Central Anatolia Region
Bar and Lezginka - Northeastern Anatolia Region

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