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Music and Politics at the Ottoman Bank Museum this time with a live piano performance...
Twelve-tone Music* and Alienation Within the Framework of Adorno's Socio-Political Theory
TMusicologist Kıvılcım Yıldız Şenürkmez and pianist Burcu Aktaş will be joining us this month at the Voyvoda Street Music and Politics lectures. In her presentation, Şenürkmez will discuss the concepts of alienation and modernism in relation to the evolution of twelve-tone music* while Aktaş will give a 12 minute performance of Alban Berg's Op.1 Piano Sonata. The event, which aims to throw light on the interface of music and politics, is scheduled for Wednesday, February 16, and will be held at the Museum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Şenürkmez will examine the musical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno, founder of the "Critical Thought Theory", and his views concerning the social purpose of music. Presenting Adorno as a sociologist, philosopher and composer, she will address his rationalization of music, as a social antithesis of society and consider his commitment to twelve-tone music.
* 12-tone music: A system devised by A. Schoenberg, in Vienna, in the beginning of the 20th century, according to which no note can be repeated until all the other 11 notes have been used. The composer decides upon an order in which the 12 tones will occur, (a row), and this tone row is repeated in its original form and with certain transformations all through the composition..
KıvılcımYıldız Şenürkmez began her musical education at the State Conservatory of Istanbul Technical University and then studied the viola at the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University. In 1998, she graduated from the Department of Musicology of the same university.
Şenürkmez went on to earn a master's degree in music from King's College, in 2000. In 2001, she was accepted as a researcher in the Department of Musicology of the State Conservatory at Mimar Sinan University, where she has been pursuing a Ph.D program since 2002 and working on her doctoral dissertation entitled Kültürel, Ekonomik ve Yasal Perspektifte Türkiye'de Klasik Müzik Etkinlikleri ("A Cultural, Economic and Legal Perspective on Classical Music Activities in Turkey").
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