Османская музыка в XVIII — начале XX столетия: на пути модернизации музыкальной культуры
Ottoman music in the XVIII — early XX century: towards the modernization of musical culture

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the transformation of traditional oriental musical culture in the Ottoman Empire. The counter movement and the interpenetration of Eastern and European cultures completely changed Ottoman music. On the one hand, Ottoman music has partially lost its oriental traditions, on the other hand, the remaining oriental flavor began to play with brighter notes in new musical works. All these changes would have been impossible without the participation of European and Eastern intellectuals of the new formation. It was they who began the process of shaping Ottoman Western music. At the same time, oriental intellectuals, having abandoned oriental traditionalism in musical culture, carefully treated the history of the musical culture of their society. It seems surprising, but oriental figures of musical art in their practices not only did not see an obvious obstacle on the part of the sultans in the adaptation of European musical culture to the formation of new Ottoman music, but, and, often, the sultans themselves became popularizes of European musical culture. At the same time, we cannot say that Ottoman Western music managed to fully form, but we can definitely state that it gave a powerful impetus to the development of musical culture in the Republic of Turkey at the beginning of the XX century. At the same time, it can be noted that without the interest of Western and Russian musical figures in Eastern musical traditions, there would be no acquaintance with the Eastern musical culture in Europe and Russia. That is why musical works based on the interpenetration of musical cultures are part of the global cultural heritage.

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