SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF ??ÛBE?S IN LADIKLI MEHMED ÇELEBI?S WORKS ?ZEYNÜ?L ELHÂN? AND ?ER-RISÂLETÜ?L FETHIYYE?

Abstract

The art of music always maintained its importance in every civilization founded by Turks. They brought together their music culture from Central Asia to Anatolia and they improved this music culture in Anatolia. The most important factor in this conveyance is written music documents. Among these written documents, ?edvâr?s are basic resources about Turkish music theory. Edvârs written by music scholars such as Fârâbî, ?bn-i Sinâ, Safiyüddin Abdülmümin Urmevî, Abdülkadir Merâgî and Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi in Central Asia shed light to these days. Among them, two works of Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi present important information about ?makâm?, ?âvâze?, ??ûbe? and ?terkip? which constitute the basis of Turkish music theory. It is known that the first work of Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi about music theory is ?Zeynü?l- Elhân fî ?lmi?t- Te?lîfî ve?l Evzân? written in 1483. The title of the work which he wrote in 1484 is ?er-Risâletü?l Fethiyye?. Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi presented the names and orders of ?makâm?, ?âvâze?, ??ûbe? and ?terkip? descriptively in his works. He described 4 ??ûbe? in his first work ?Zeynü?l- Elhân? and 24 ??ûbe? in his work ?Fethiyye? and indicated that these statements belonged to older scholars. It is necessary to examine the differences of ??ûbe?s categorised by him according to newer and elder scholars comparatively. The subject of this study is the similarities and differences of Ladikli Mehmed Çelebi?s assessments in his two works about ??ûbe? in accordance with the data obtained from the presentation of these two works comparatively.