PSALM HYMN AND SIMILAR FORMS IN TURKISH RELIGIOUS MUSIC IN THE EXAMPLE OF ALI UFKÎ

ABSTRACT The expressions in the Psalms section of Bible, which is known as the Old and New Testament, about the prophets Moses, David, and Solomon, by being mentioned directly by their names, making their edicts through music are quite remarkable. Although religious music, which was considerably in the fore ground from Adam to Moses, from David and Solomon to Jesus and Mohammed, and later to the Medieval periods, had lost its place to the non-religious music, is thought to have always maintained its area of ​​influence. Our study, where we emphasized that David read aloud the Zabur that were revealed to him, that Moses was a music lover, that Mohammed preferred his companions with beautiful voices to read Qur'an, clearly shows us that the language of music is used in religious rituals because of its effects on people. Especially when we examined the Psalm hymns of Ali Ufkî Bey, the similarity of the melodic sequence of these hymns with Turkish religious music has attracted our attention, and we have felt the need to do a comparative study in order to refer to this similarity. In this study, where we examined the Psalm hymns that appear in the Bible and occur with it and its form structures that are similar to Turkish religious Music, information about Psalms and Psalm hymns were given from general to specific. Then, necessary analyses were completed by discussing form structures of the Psalms that bear similarities to Turkish religious music such as Ghazal, Qasida, Qur'an Chants, Tamcid, Rosary, Circle Dhikr, Works About Miraj, Mawlid, Hejaz Tunes and Nihavend New Form, and the evaluations arising within the subject were discussed in the conclusion section.