Abstract:

The study and interpretation of music in an autonomous or heterogeneous way has been discussed throughout history. This ma- castle, the autonomous-heteronomic approaches in Ottoman music, from Yusuf Kırşehri's Risale-i Musiki (1411) to Mr. Haşim's Mecmuası (1853) to threeteen different music writings. Early Ottomans and Muslim philosophers before them were quite aware of the Pisagorcu doctrines, such as Ethos and the Compatibility of the Kures, where music was studied heteronomically. However, Aristotle, a line against the Pissagorcity, also had a great influence on the music writings of Muslim philosophers and early Ottomans. From the 15th century, the number of Turkish writings increased – and the Aristotle’s autonomous approach began to shift. The argument of this article is that this shift has led to the domination of Pisagorculu in the continuing centuries and even today in the music thought. This situation was not the success of the heteronomic approach of Pisagorcity, but the result of a breakdown from the Aristotle tradition.

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