FERİT HİLMİ ATREK’S APPROACH TO LIED

Abstract

Ferit Hilmi Atrek (1903-2006), follower of the contemporary Turkish music pathinitiated by “TurkishFivers” during the foundation of the new republic, concentrated on Turkish lied and composed numbers of songs apart from school songs.

Unfortunately, the manuscripts on creativity of the composer are quitescarce. Number of published documents about the composer is away from adequate. The purpose of this study is to reveal contribution of the composer into Turkish lied, to investigate the subjects, characters, range of affection, forms, singing-piano relationship adopted by the composer as well as presenting examples of 5 songs of composer with a live performance session within the scope of Ferit Hilmi Atrek's book "Songs and Folk Songs "Lieds" with Piano Accompaniment. In our study, resourc escreening method was utilized in line with our objectives. It was a imed to accessands creen previousres earches concentrated on the composer’ssinging creativity.

Conclusively, it was sent hat Ferit Hilmi Atrek paid significant interesttoTurkish lied and maderespective contribution by composing numbers of art songs. Accordingly, it is suggested that art directors need to pay attention to include vocal art songs of the composer into the irsinging repertoires.