CLASSICAL WESTERN MUSIC APPROACHES IN THE OTTOMAN PALACE

Abstract

It is seen that Turks have been affected by the people living on the lands they conquered since the middle ages, the states with which they established diplomatic relations, in the field of culture and art, as well as by them. Although this effect was seen more intensely, especially during the Ottoman Empire period, from the 15th to the 16th centuries, it can be said that the conquests in the 17th and 18th centuries had wide repercussions in the Europe of the time. The traces of this interaction show themselves mutually in instruments, instrumental music, especially in opera and ballet works. With this study, the entrance of Classical Western Music to the palace, brought by the interest in Western lifestyles that emerged with the modernization movements in the Ottoman Empire, the studies on the development of this music and its effects on today's Turkey were tried to be outlined. In the study, the descriptive method was used within the framework of the survey model.