@article{2018,title={RAUF YELTÂ'S VIEWS ON TURKISH FOLK MUSIC},abstractNode={Rauf Yektâ is known for his works on classical Turkish music history and theories. In addition to being a composer, a neyzen (ney player) and a music educator, his extensive research and writings on classical Turkish music history have made him one of the founders of Turkish musicology, and he is even regarded by some as the founder of Turkish musicology. Rauf Yektâ, who started his musical writings with the article titled "Mûsikî-i Osmânî Nazariyâtı Lisân-ı Elhân - I" (Language of Melodies in Ottoman Music Theories - I) published on the 10th issue of the “Resimli Gazette” on 11 January 1897, wrote articles on almost everything related to classical Turkish music and conducted scientific studies on classical Turkish music sound systems until the year of his death, in 1935. Almost all of his articles were regarding classical Turkish music, he virtually devoted his entire life to express, develop and popularize the history of Turkish music, to theories based on scientific grounds and to properly explain them to the Western world. Today, there are many publications regarding the studies conducted by Rauf Yektâ on classical Turkish music. These publications entirely focuse on classical Turkish music theory or its history. However, Rauf Yektâ also has publications and studies regarding Turkish folk music . This research focuses on Rauf Yektâ's ideas and writings on Turkish folk music and his contributions to the compilation, reviewing and recording of Turkish folk music. Considering the focal point of the research topic; Rauf Yektâ's articles published in newspapers and journals of the time such as Vakit, Yenises, İkdâm etc., his forewords in the 1st and 2nd Books of Anatolian Folk Songs (Anadolu Halk Şarkıları) and his analysis and comments on the notes of the folk songs found in these books were analyzed. As a result of this research, based on his article titled "A Few Words About Ot-toman Music" published on İkdâm on 6 April 1898, it was understood that Rauf Yetka was the first Turkish musicologist that stated the necessity of compilation of the studies of Turkish folk music, the necessity that folk songs must be notated and published and that these folk songs were the actual national Turkish music; that Rauf Yeltâ had important contributions in the editing the 1st and 2nd Books of Anatolian Folk Songs by the Dârülelhan (the first official conservatory in the Ottoman Empire). Another result is that the introductions of these books were written by Rauf Yektâ, and that the alteration signs used in classical Turkish music such as the 4 coma flat (Bakiye) and the 5 coma flat (Küçük Mücenneb) were first used in Turkish folk song notation by Rauf Yeltâ.},author={Ünsal DENİZ},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}