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Adnan Saygun, one of the leading composers of the Turkish Five, was a serious ethnomusicologist who led the fieldwork in gathering folk material, and collaborated with the prominent musicological researcher and composer Bla Bartk. Saygun’s music is published and recorded and performed internationally. After a biography, this study uses Saygun’s violin music to discuss his practice of utilizing Turkish folk elements in Turkish classical music. It thus provides the non-Turkish performer with an understanding of the performance practice of the authentic Turkish folk idiom in Saygun’s original compositions and Turkish classical music. A list of Saygun’s works (revised by the composer) and a discography follow.
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