Abstract
Cinuçen Tanrıkorur was an important oud virtuoso, composer and musicologist who lived in the 20th century. His 505 pieces of work, which he composed with his unique composition understanding, show distinctive features from other composers with their form features, use of maqams, musical descriptions and melodic structures. Some of the forms he composed; Mevlevi Ceremony, Münâcât, Na't, Tevşîh, Durak, Mersiye, İlahi, Children's İlahi, Şuğul, Nefes, Peşrev, Saz Semaisi, Medhal, Traditional dance music, Longa, Kar, Kar-ı Natik, Karçe, Beste, Ağır Semai, Yürük Semâi, Fantasy, Song, Destan, Gazel, Lament, Turkish Film Music, Oud Etude, Folkloric Etude, Lullaby, Mani, Children's Song, March. In Tanrıkorur's compositions, he is classical in terms of maqam, usûl and rhythm, and innovative in terms of transition and composition. In addition, the sentences in his compositions are clearly felt. This study aims to reveal Cinuçen Tanrıkorur's understanding of composition through the ilâhî form, which is the smallest form of Turkish religious music. One of our other purposes is to determine how he uses form features in his ilâhî form. It is one of our other aims of the study to determine how the form features are used in ilahi form. The study also reveals the compositional characteristics of the composer by examining sentence and section structures of Tanrıkorur’s works. The subject of the study is important in terms of determining Tanrıkorur's understanding of composition and the features of using the ilâhî form. The universe of the study consists of Tanrıkorur's compositions, and the sample consists of 5 compositions in ilâhî form. In the method of the study, "Gülçin Yahya Form Analysis" and source scanning methods were used. Cinuçen Tanrıkorur's compositions in the chosen ilâhî form were analyzed in terms of sentence, section structures, playing work fiction, performance flow, and revealed with their form features. It was determined that different section structures were used in the examined ilâhîs, words and refrains were added to the work by the composer in addition to lyrics, that the melody structures simply explained the maqam, and he definitely preferred the makam passages in the chapters.