Abstract:

European international art music which developed linearly in the several ages and periods from Middle Age that then there were new searches in music with social changes in the late Romantic period and so that new streams movements and techniques of musical composition called contemporary art music emerged But there is no Turkish to date information and documents can be used in the branches of musicology composition performance and music education about the composition mainstreams and techniques of contemporary art music In this study so the principal mainstreams and techniques of musical composition in contemporary art music with the composers were investigated within the framework of historical conceptual and systematic approaches of musicology So it is seen that contemporary art music is represented basically the thirteen mainstreams and eight techniques These findings were described and interpreted in the relevant sections of this article In addition the composers of the mainstreams and the techniques were presented in Table 1 Key Words: Contemporary music Mainstream Technique Composer Composition

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