Online Journal of Music Sciences

Öz

Factors affecting the elements of interpretation in music vary according to the piece, the environment of performance, skill and experience of the interpreter, and include many options. This study tried to investigate the methods encountered and the content of the interpretation in both technical and philosophical terms. Producer of the work have a say in the production of art, while its interpreter has a say in the presentation of the art. The preferences that are tried to be understood based on the interpreted version of the muhayyer saz semai by Tanburi Cemil Bey, were initially established in terms of their foundations with a sociological and philosophical perspective, followed by a technical analysis within the framework of international music literature. The psychological reasons of the obtained data reflecting from the performer have taken their place as a subject of discussion. This matter, which has been open to discussion for centuries, cannot provide a satisfactory answer to the question of what can be done in pursuit of beauty or what is the measure of beauty. Should the performer remain confined to technical limits while in search of beauty? Is what is beautiful for the performer also theoretically correct? The study mentioned absence of the habit in Turkish music composers to add warnings on notes of music they produce that would help performer. Continuance of Turkish music writing tradition and monophony and absence of partitions of instruments in Turkish music can be presented as the reason for this case. This study aimed to open doors of thought for professional performers in order to understand multi-choice interpretation elements and to form a resource for those that are in the process of learning and understanding music and who are looking to “contribute” to a piece they encounter for the first time.