AZERBAYCAN MÜZİĞİNDE TAR.

Tar is an instrument that has a very important place in the education and performance of Azerbaijani Folk Music and is almost associated with this music. In addition to this, tar takes place in Turkish folk music as a color instrument in the fields of education and performance due to its regional characteristics. Efforts to keep our traditional music, which is one of our common cultural values in the Turkish world, alive; It is very important for music performers to carry their style and attitude without deviating from the traditional line. Tunes, poems and performance techniques have an important place in conveying the musical identity of the society. Thanks to these, while defining the society, the characteristic features of the society are also determined. The Turkish world also has instruments that define its own culture and express the voice of the people with their unique tones. In this sense, Tar is an instrument that has taken its place among the instruments used by the Turks and has helped the society that has accepted itself in the geography it is in, in performing its own music. Tar, which has taken its place among Turkish folk music instruments, has become widespread in our country recently and has been included in education at the conservatory level. Tar has a very important place in the education and performance of Azerbaijani folk music. Due to the natural structure of the instrument, encountering some difficulties in its performance and practice causes the interest in the instrument to decrease and it loses its importance. For this purpose, the main purpose of the study is to contribute to the studies aimed at keeping the national culture alive by touching on the place of tar in folk music. This article; It consists of Introduction, History, Tar Structure and Technical Properties, Notation Used in Tar, Tar Chord and Conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]