Dönemlendirme çalışmaları ve osmanlı-türk müziği tarihyazımı: Bir bilanço denemesi

Abstract

Periodization is a fundamental subject in historiography, and it is inevitable to call upon it in a study on the past. Nevertheless, it is difficult to come across research on general aspects of periodization. Therefore, scholars studying long time periods in the past have had to develop their own periodization theories. When we look at the field of Ottoman-Turkish music from this perspective, surely it can be said that periodization is a highly questionable topic. This article aims to discuss periodization in terms of both historiography and Ottoman-Turkish culture and music studies. After explaining the scope of the research in the first part, the second part of the article focuses on a list of different periodization suggestions in history, architecture, and music in somewhat chronological order and tries to emphasize the importance of the issue of periodization in Ottoman-Turkish music studies. In this way, the article aims to reconsider the necessity of broadening historical sources for Ottoman-Turkish music and reflects on some of the predominant periodization debates. The study is based on a structuralist view of periodization considers the works of scholars such as Fernand Braudel and Reinhart Koselleck, who worked on historical time theory. Finally, the article concludes by referring to the predominant debates on periodization in Ottoman-Turkish music and cultural history and to the relationship of these debates to historically informed performance.