Abstract
It is thought that to be successful in piano education it is important to understand how composers composed their solo piano works. In order to understand contemporary music, it is considered that the definition of today’s changing music understanding is possible with a closer examination of the ideas of contemporary composers about their artistic productions. For this reason, the qualitative research method was adopted in this study and the data obtained from the semi-structured interviews with 7 Turkish contemporary composers were analyzed by creating codes and themes with “Nvivo11 Qualitative Data Analysis Program”. The results obtained are musical elements of currents, styles, techniques, composers and genres that are influenced by contemporary Turkish composers’ solo piano works used in piano education. In total, 9 currents like Fluxus and New Complexity, 3 styles like Claudio Monteverdi, 5 techniques like Spectral Music and Polymodality, 5 composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Guillaume de Machaut and 9 genres like Turkish Folk Music and Traditional Greek are reached. It is thought that the results will contribute to the field because it will cause a better understanding in the artistic viewpoints of contemporary composers, as well as being a step for the piano and music educators and the students who have studied academic piano education in order for them to be able to understand the contemporary music.
Highlights
The technologic developments of the 20th century, the rapid increase in information, the pace in communication-transportation have brought about differences in comparison to the previous century
Contemporary music that has followed a haphazard growth is summarized with concepts and terms that arise from its main features: “Modern Music”, “Twentieth Century Harmony”, Pioneer Music” (Say, 2009)
It is thought that to be successful in piano education it is important to understand how composers composed their solo piano works
Summary
The technologic developments of the 20th century, the rapid increase in information, the pace in communication-transportation have brought about differences in comparison to the previous century. They have influenced music as other art branches and constituted the base of the ‘contemporary music’ concept. It is thought that the enriched and various musical materials in the 21st century have brought about differences in terms of combining these components and establishing the musical idea. This situation constitutes spaces that bring composers together or dissociate them and presents the concept of “currents”. The main currents and styles in the framework “contemporary music” of were listed by Yöre: “Impressionist Music, Expressionist Music, Electronic Music, Musical Primitivism, Neo-Classical Music, Serial Music, Microtonal Music, Jazz Music, Utility Music, Aleatoric Music, Neo-Romantic Music, Computer Music, Minimal Music, Polystylism Music, New Simplicity, New Complexity, Musical Historicism, Rock Music” (Yöre, 2011)
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