Bablekan (Ahmet's Version) - Kurdistan
Bablekan (Ahmet's Version) Kurdistan These notes ©2018, Andrew Carnie. This is the version taught by Ahmet Lüleci. We also do a different version of this dance notated here: Bablekan . The dance is named after a family in the Eastern Kurdish region of Turkey. Music : AL 005; Siçak '91 Meter : The meter for this is tricky. Ahmet originally notated as 10/4, other notes adjusted it to 2/4. Personally, I don't hear either of these. I hear the phrasing of the music as 5 bars of 3/4. Where the steps are grouped as (1)(23) or QS. [The music might actually SQS, but the dance is QS, where the dance Q corresponds to the first musical S and the dance S corresponds to the musical QS] Most Bablekan music is in 2/4 and the steps are even. But here they are clearly syncopated. I'm going to notate it in 3/4. If you don't hear the music this way, try one of the other notes linked below! Formation : Open circle, hands in W position, holding pinkies. The dance leads R. Start facing...