MJT 606 - WESTERNIZATION AND MODERNISM IN TURKISH MUSIC

Course Objectives

• To analyse the influences of westernization and modernism movements on music starting in the Ottoman period aand continuing on the Republican era
• To improve new approaches on social sciences through the case studies.
• To write articles and present them through comperative analytical approaches.

Course Description

Westernisation. Modernism. Tanzimat. Nationalism. Westernisation and west knowledge in Ottoman Empire. Nationalism period. Republic Era. III.Selim era. II.Mahmud era. Musical approaches. Muzıkay-ı Hu¨mayun as the first Western music institution. Daru¨lelhan as a music institiution. European Art music and Turkish music education. European music in Ottoman palace. Western influences on Ottoman music. First theaters. Urban entertaintment music. Kantos. Operets. European Art music influences in Turkey and new Turkish music approaches. Debates on Turkish and Western music. Popular music. Gazino music.