Saygun: 12 Preludes On Aksak Rhythms / 10 Sketches On Aksak Rhythms / Piano Sonatina
10/29/2008, 35 Tracks, 1:11:05
Featuring
Zeynep Üçbaşaran
Ahmet Adnan Saygun
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Performer Biography
The Turkish pianist Zeynep Üçbaşaran, the performer on this album, has advanced graduate degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish Republic, urged the creation of a new musical style that drew on Turkish national heritage as a means of national transformation.
Composer Biography
Ahmet Adnan Saygun, one of the most important composers of the New Turkey, was among the 'Turkish Five' — a group of distinguished Turkish composers.
Composer Biography
Ahmet Adnan Saygun collaborated with Béla Bartók, a Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, in researching Turkish folk-music.
Historical Context
The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 brought many reforms under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, including a strong emphasis on the arts and the promotion of Western culture absorbed into new Turkish nationalism.
Compositional Technique
Saygun's 'Aksak Rhythms' are 'limping' rhythms that combine binary and ternary units, a characteristic derived from Turkish folk-music.
Composer Biography
Ahmet Adnan Saygun's father initially discouraged his son's musical ambitions, insisting he have another means of earning a living.
