CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: THE MAINSTREAMS, THE TECHNIQUES OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION, AND PRINCIPAL COMPOSERS

Abstract

European (international) art music, which developed linearly in the several ages and periods from Middle Age that then there were new searches in music with social changes in the late Romantic period, and so that new streams (movements) and techniques of musical composition, called contemporary art music, emerged. But there is no Turkish-to-date information and documents, can be used in the branches of musicology, composition, performance and music education, about the composition mainstreams and techniques of contemporary art music. In this study, so the principal mainstreams and techniques of musical composition in contemporary art music with the composers were investigated within the framework of historical, conceptual and systematic approaches of musicology. So it is seen that contemporary art music is represented basically the thirteen mainstreams and eight techniques. These findings were described and interpreted in the relevant sections of this article. In addition, the composers of the mainstreams and the techniques were presented in Table 1.

Keywords

• Contemporary music
• Mainstream
• Technique
• Composer
• Composition

ÇAĞDAŞ MÜZİK: BESTECİLİK ANA AKIMLARI, TEKNİKLERİ, VE BAŞLICA BESTECİLER

Abstract

Avrupa (uluslararası) sanat müziği, Ortaçağdan başlayarak çeşitli çağ ve dönemler içinde doğrusal olarak gelişmiş, Romantik dönem sonlarındaki toplumsal değişimlerle birlikte, müzikte yeni arayışlar ortaya çıkmış ve böylece çağdaş sanat müziği olarak adlandırılan yeni bestecilik akım ve teknikleri oluşmuştur. Ancak çağdaş müziğin bestecilik akım ve teknikleri hakkında müzikoloji, bestecilik, yorumculuk ve müzik eğitimi alanında kullanılabilecek tanımlayıcı güncel Türkçe bilgiler ve kaynaklar olmadığı görülmüştür. Ortaya çıkan bu eksiklik tespit edilerek, bu çalışmada çağdaş sanat müziğini oluşturan başlıca bestecilik akım ve teknikleri ile besteciler müzikolojinin tarihsel, kavramsal ve sistematik yaklaşımları içinde araştırılmış, çağdaş müziğin temel olarak on üç akım ve sekiz teknikle temsil edildiği belirlenmiş, ortaya çıkan bu bulgular makalenin ilgili bölümlerinde tanımlanmış ve yorumlanmıştır. Ayrıca ortaya çıkan akım ve tekniklerle ilgili başlıca besteciler Tablo 1‟de verilmiştir.

Keywords

• Çağdaş Müzik
• Ana Akım
• Teknik
• Besteci
• Bestecilik

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