Ademir, Hayrettin. Die neue türkische Musik, dargestellt an Volksliedbearbeitungen für mehrstimmingen Chor [The New Turkish music as Represented by Folksong Arrangements for Polyphonic Chorus] (Hitit Verlag, 1991).

 

Ali, Filiz. Elektronik Müzigin Öncüscü Bülent Arel [The Life of Bülent Arel, Pioneer of Electronic Music] (Is Bankasi Yayinlari, 2002).

 

Altar, Cevad Memduh. Opera Tarihi [History of Opera], Cilt 4, Kultur Eserleri Dizisi: 25.

 

Antep, Ersin. Türk Besteceleri Eser Katalogu [Catalogue of Works by Turkish Composers] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 2006).

 

———. Türk Bestecileri Eser Kayit Kaaynakcasi [Sources of Recordings of Turkish Composers] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 2005).

 

Araci, Emre. A. Adnan Saygun (Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2007).

 

———. Donizetti / Osmanli Sarayinin Italyan Maestrosu [Donizetti Pasha, Italian Maestro at the Ottoman Court] (Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2006).

 

Adyin, Yilmaz. Die Werke der Türkischen Fünf im Lichte der musikalischen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Europa [The Works of the Turkish Five in Light of Relationships of Musical Exchange between Turkey and Europe] (Peter Lang, 2002).

 

———. Türk Besleri [The Turkish Five] (Müzik Ansiklopedisi Yayinlari, 2003).

 

Aucoin, Don. “Turkish Music, Western Style,” Boston Globe (March 14, 2002, p. D4).

 

Çalgan, Koral. Duyuşlar: Ulvi Cemal Erkin [Hearings: Ulvi Cemal Erkin] (Müzik Aniklopedisi Yayinlari, 1991).

 

Giray, Selim. A Biography of the Turkish Composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun and a Discussion of His Violin Works (Edwin Mellen, 2003).

 

Greve, Martin. Die Musik der imaginären Türkei: Musik und Musikleben im Kontext der Migration aus der Türkei in Deutschland [The Music of Imaginary Turkey: Music and Musical Life in the Context of Migration from Turkey to Germany] (Metzler, 2003). Translated into Turkish with annotations by A. Maral as Almanya’da “Hayali Türkiye”nin Müzigi (Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi Yayinlari, 2006).

 

———. Die Europäisierung orientalischer Kunstmusik in der Türkei (Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe 36, Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 142, Peter Lang, Europaischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1995).

 

Ilyasoglu, Evin. 25 Turk Bestecisi / 25 Turkish Composers (Pan Yayincilik, 1989).

 

———. 71 Türk Bestecisi / 71 Turkish Composers (Pan Yayincilik, 2007).

 

Ilyasoglu, Evin. Muzigin Kanatlarinda Soylesiler (Pan Yayincilik, 1992). 

 

———. Ilhan Usmanbas'a Armagan, Sevda Cenap And Muzik [Ilhan Usmanbas: Those Were Immortal Sea-Stones] (Vakfi Yayinlari, 1994; Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2000). 

 

———. Zaman Içinde Muzik (Yapi ve Kredi Yayinlari, 1994; 4.baskI 1996).

 

———. Ilhan Usmanbas’a Armagan [Ilhan Usmanbas Festschrift] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müik Yayinlari, 1994).

 

———.  Cemal Resit Rey-Muzikten Ibaret Bir Dunyada Gezintiler [Cemail Resit Rey: A Visit to a Purely Musical World] (Yapi ve Kredi Yayinlari, 1997; rev. ed. Dünya, 2005).

 

———. Necil Kazim Akses: Minyatürden Destana Bir Yolculuk [Necil Kazim Akses: A Voyage from the Miniature to the Epic] (Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 1994).

 

Kahramankaptan, Sefik. Atatürk, Saygun ve Özsoy Operasi [Atatürk, Saygun, and the Opera Özsoy] (Sevada-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, n.d.)

 

———. Çesmebasindan Esintilerle – Ferid Tüzün [With a Soft Wind Blowing from the Fountains – Ferid Tüzün] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 2001).

 

Kinzerankara, Stephen. “Classical Music Apolitical? Not in Turkey,” New York Times (May 4, 1997, late edition East Coast p. H28).

 

Kütahyali, Önder. Cagdas Müzik Tarihi [The History of Contemporary Music] (Nejat Ilhan Leblebici, 1981).

 

———. Isigi Tasiryan Adam-Hikmet Simsek [Himet Simsek, Torch-bearer] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 2003).

 

Maral, Alper. Yeni bir Müzigin Yoluna Düsmek: Yüzyillik Merkez-Cevre Gerilimi ve Travfiginde Türk Kompozitörler; Göcleri, Kalislari ve Dönüsleri ile bir Insa ve Tutunma Sürecinin Muhasebsi [Towards a New Music: Turkish Composers Caught Up in the Traffic and Tension of a Century-old Center-Periphery Polarity; An Account of Their Clinging to Roots, Enduring and Building Anew, and of Their Emigrations and Returns Home] (forthcoming).

 

———, ed. Festschrift issue of the journal Koara for the 80th birthday of Ilhan Mimaroglu (March 2006).

 

Maral, Alper and Mark Lindley. Techniques of 20th-Century Turkish Contemporary Music: An Introductory Survey (Pan, 2011). 

 

Mimaroglu, Ilhan. Elektronik Müzik [Pan, 1991].

 

———. Geldim Gördüm Geçtim Gittim [I Came, I Saw, I Passed Away] (Pan, 2001).

 

———. Other Words (Pan, 2004).

 

Okyay, Erdogan. Longa’dan Koncertoya: Ferid Alnar [From “Longa” to the Concerto] (Sevada-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 1999).

 

Refig, Gülper. A. Adnan Saygun ve Geçmisten Gelecege Türk Musikisi [A. Adnan Saygun and Turkish Music of the Past and the Future] (Kültür Bakanligi, 1991).

 

Reisman, Arnold. Arts in Turkey: How Ancient Became Contemporary (BookSurge, 2009).

 

———. Post-Ottoman Turkey: Classical European Music and Opera (BookSurge, 2009).

 

Say, Ahmet. Muzik Tarihi [History of Music] (Muzik Ansiklopedisi Yayinlari, 1994). 

 

———. The Music Makers in Turkey (1995).

 

Saygun, Ahmet Adnan. Atatürk ve Musiki [Atatürk and Music] (Sevda-Cenap And Vakfi Müzik Yayinlari, 1995).

 

Selanik, Cavidan. Muzik Sanatinin Tarihsel Seruveni (Doruk Yayimcilik, 1996).

 

Stokes, Martin. “Giuseppe Donizetti Pascia,” Ethnomusicology 56, no. 1 (March 2012): 144.

 

Uçarsu, Hasan. “Cemal Resid Rey’in Ilk Dönem Uretiminde Dogu-Bati Ikilemi” [The Dilemma of East and West in the Early Works of Cemal Resid Rey], Dipnot vol. 2 (Kis-Bahar, 2004).

 

Woodard, Kathryn. Music Mediating Politics in Turkey (BookBaby, 2011).

 

A. Adnan Saygun-Biyografya (Baglam Yayinlari, 2004).

 

 

Related material

 

Aksoy, Bulent. Avrupali Gezginlerin Gozuyle Osmanllarda Musiki [Music in Ottomans] (Pan Yayincilik, 1994).

 

Bartók, Béla. Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor (Princeton University Press, 1976).

 

Burkhalter, Thomas, Kay Dickinson, Benjamin J. Harbert, eds. The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity (Wesleyan University Press, 2013).

 

Sancar, Fahriye Hazer. “City, Music, and Place Attachment: Beloved Istanbul,” Journal of Urban Design 8, no. 3 (October 2003): 269-91.

 

Seter, Ronit. [Book under contract with Oxford University Press on Israeli Composers.]

 

Suchoff, Benjamin. “In the Wake of Bartók in Anatolia,” Ethnomusicology 46, no. 2: 342-44.

 

 

Links to Institutions and Musicians Not Listed on the Turkish Music Portal

 

Ahmed Adnan Saygun Cultural Center (in Izmir)

 

Borusan String Quartet (based in Istanbul)

 

Hezarfen Ensemble (a new music ensemble based in Istanbul)

 

Istanbul Music Festival

 

Listening to Istanbul (website and recording featuring contemporary composers linked to Istanbul)

 

Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (festival in Borusan)

 

Tepki Music Collective (a new music ensemble with Turkish roots based in Pittsburgh)

 

Trio Isimsiz (piano trio based in England)