AIM
Rauf Yekta, a leading figure in Turkish musicology, holds an extensive body of work in Turkish Music history, composition, theory and performance. He will be commemorated 150 years after his birth in Rauf Yekta Symposium. His original archive, which has yet to be studied, his rational approach to study of music, his musical identity, his compositions and composing style, his publications, his personality – a bridge between tradition and modernity, his multifaceted identity will be the subject of this symposium.
The symposium will be organized jointly with Atatürk Cultural Center – Organization for Language and History by ITÜ Turkish Music State Conservatory on January 6-8, 2023. The subjects covered in the symposium is as below:
- Rauf Yekta and the Music Circles
- Music Archives
- Music Publishing
- Editions
- His work in Tasnif ve Tespit Heyeti
- Music and Institutionalization
- Music and Ritual
- Music and Polemic
- Music and International Relations
- Periodicals
- Construction of Identity with Music
- Meşk, Music and Memory
- Music Theory
- Performance Theory
- Composition
- Performance
- Biography and Social History
- Music History Writing and Methodology