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Bar is a Turkish
folk dance from
Eastern
Turkey.
[1] The word bar is from the
Armenian word "Պար" (bar) which means dance. With their structure and formation, they are the dances performed by groups in the open. They are spread, in general, all over the region of
Eastern Anatolia, especially in
Artvin,
Ardahan,
Erzurum,
Bayburt,
Ağrı,
Kars, and
Erzincan provinces. The characteristic of their formation is that they are performed side-by-side, hand, shoulder and arm-in-arm. Woman and man bars are different from one another. The principal instruments of bar dances are
davul and
zurna (shrill pipe). The dominant measures in bars are 5
8 and 9
8. Occasionally measures of 6
8 and 12
8 are also used.
Aksak 9
8 measures which are the most characteristic measures, in particular, of the
Turkish folk music are applied with extremely different and interesting structures in this dance.
A famous song of Bar is called 'Atabarı'.